Thread: Cocoons

Dropbears.

If they were mud maybe a type of wasp.....but i am no expert

I would have to say wasps as well. We get them at home and they go around and catch all the little spiders and stuff them in there for when the lavae hatch.

Definitely mud wasp/hornets nests. I call them hornets myself. They are a real bugger up north as they will plug a hose in a jiffy. I have seen one of those nests hold 100psi. So inside them is the larvae, a grub thing in a red sort of plastic looking cocoon. Around it it a few sedated spiders (with out legs) or caterpillas, which the larvae eats before hatching out as a hornet.
The hornet is plain orange colour and quite skinny about 20mm long.

Dan.

Originally Posted by wovenrovings

Definitely mud wasp/hornets nests. I call them hornets myself. They are a real bugger up north as they will plug a hose in a jiffy. I have seen one of those nests hold 100psi. So inside them is the larvae, a grub thing in a red sort of plastic looking cocoon. Around it it a few sedated spiders (with out legs) or caterpillas, which the larvae eats before hatching out as a hornet.
The hornet is plain orange colour and quite skinny about 20mm long.

Dan.

What he said. Even in Brisbane are they a big problem. I pulled apart a landie engine once (had been in storage), and there were mud-wasp nests in one of the cylinders!!!

(not to mention the manifolds, water pump, etc, etc...

Experienced one in the exhaust of a portable generator once - wondered why the motor wouldn't start!!

Roger

The pink ones are Toymota drivers coz they're pussies and the grey ones are Pootrol drivers coz they're always old and slow...!!
And much like the cocoons, they look like dicks!!!

Thats what ooiim talkin' abowt!!!

Look like mud wasp nests. Sods will build onto anything that stays still long enough. Had one start to build under my camping chair one day, whilst I was sitting in it