Q. Whatever happened to the giant murder hornets? It seems like 2019 was so long ago, but that is when the Asian giant hornets dominated the news (at least for a little while). In case you needed ...

Birds build their nests out of everything from twigs and mud to spider silk. Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary. For this month’s Chirp Chat, ...

We're talking about barn swallows, infamous for their mud nests above doorways and for transforming front porches into bathrooms. "They don't fly off, they don't go use the bathroom. They use it ...

Of the eight species of swallows in North America, barn and cliff swallows are considered the most problematic for property owners because they build mud nests attached to houses, barns and other ...

Of the eight species of swallows in North America, barn and cliff swallows are considered the most problematic for property owners because they build mud nests attached to houses, barns and other ...

Photo from Chun-Fu Lin via Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga and Lin (2025) In a wetland of central Taiwan, a “slender” creature poked its “triangular” head out of a mud nest and made an ...

Belonging to a group known as square-headed wasps, this is the only North American species in the genus Trypoxylon that creates its own, free-standing mud nests. Organ pipe mud dauber wasps are ...

The Nest Learning Thermostat (4th Gen) is a meaningful upgrade over previous versions thanks to the new redesign, upgraded AI features, improved monitoring and simpler installation. The higher ...

and mud daubers. The biggest differences between hornet nests, paper wasp nests, and mud dauber nests are physical size and shape, material, and colony size. Hornets have the largest nest out of the ...

Mud Daubers are nonsocial wasps. They tend to be black with lighter markings and have a distinctively thin waist that connects their abdomen and thorax. Mud daubers make their nests out of (what else?