Weird bees nest?

[jeff kushner]

We get plenty of different mud bees or mud daubers. I get them in window frames sometimes or under the decks. This is the 1st time I ever saw one of such different colors!


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About 5" top to bottom.....

Open in a new tab and you can see different round openings.

neat

 

[Tom]

I've never seen anything like that. I'm a beekeeper and I do rescues/removals from time to time of regular honey bees, but that there is something else entirely. I agree: Neat!

 

[Yvonne G]

Have you actually seen the critter? I would think some sort of wasp.

 

[TammyJ]

We have mud wasps but those colours...??!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

They look like individual cut leaves

 

[TammyJ]

They are recycling the Autumn leaves.

 

[KarenSoCal]

I just sent your picture to Google Lens...nothing they offered looked like this! Maybe you should wear armor while you watch for the residents?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

They are recycling the Autumn leaves.

I'm only familiar with wasps and bees that make nests from mud or finely chewed "paper".
This is most unusual

 

[DoubleD1996!]

That's insane!

 

[dd33]

Looks like a lump of flake fish food.

 

[Len B]

Are you sure it's bees building it?

 

[TammyJ]

Are you sure it's bees building it?

The perp has not yet been identified. Still the Unsub.

 

[zovick]

We get plenty of different mud bees or mud daubers. I get them in window frames sometimes or under the decks. This is the 1st time I ever saw one of such different colors!


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without flash
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About 5" top to bottom.....

Open in a new tab and you can see different round openings.

neat

I would love to see a picture of what creature is going in and out of that nest. With multiple round openings, it doesn't seem like it would be bees or wasps. Usually their nests have just one opening for entrance and egress.

Have you noticed any droppings under it? Such as from mice, bats, or flying squirrels?

 

[jeff kushner]

I can't really see droppings as they would land on top of the AC in that window. I do want to see who built it though but since it's 17' off the ground outside. I'm forced to do my recon from inside the house. I'm not quite sure I want to open that window into my home!

I was really hoping someone would say "That's a so & so".

Whoever said Fish food, nailed it! LOL