Need help ID'ing a bug!

[csshih]

this guy just flew in! sorry about the bad pic, but I am using my cell phone cam.

it's actually pretty bluish, including its wings.. but yikes! this guy is roughly 2 cm. :ooo:

 

[Sgt. LED]

http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/03/14/blue-mud-dauber-wasp/

This look pretty close? Long wasted ones eat black widows and short wasted ones eat crickets.
Ol' mud dauber!

 

[csshih]

aha! that's the one, thanks :)

 

[photonstorm]

its one of these 5 families of wasps


Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Mandibulata
Class Insecta
Subclass Apterygota and Pterygota
Order Hymenoptera

Its one of these 5 families all are about 2 cm:

Family Vespidae are hornets and yellowjackets that build paper nests of hexaonal cells in the ground, hollow trees on trees or under building overhangs. They are social wasps with a caste system

Family Eumenidae are Potter Wasps, they are solitary wasps and not social

Family Masaridae have antennae that are clubbed and wings are not folded. Nests are made of mud and sand adhered to sticks and twigs

Family Pompilidae are Spider Wasps with females having antennae that are curled

Family Sphecidae are Mud Daubers and Sand Wasps. They are solitary each usually forming a seperate nest in the ground of natural openings or by building mud cells.

 

[csshih]

Sphecidae it is! I went and let it out outside.. very beautiful colors on that one :)

 

[russthetoolman]

http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740