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In Australia it was found that damage by mud-daubing wasps subsided after the eradication of feral buffaloes. The disappearance of the buffalo wallows corrected an environmental imbalance and eliminated the supply of mud (Bednarik 1989). | In Australia it was found that damage by mud-daubing wasps subsided after the eradication of feral buffaloes. The disappearance of the buffalo wallows corrected an environmental imbalance and eliminated the supply of mud (Bednarik 1989). | ||
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The following species are in Bourquin's list:
- Sphecidae
- Sphecinae, thread-waisted wasps
- Pison, mud daubers, prey on spiders
- argentatum, arrived between 1911 and 1936 (Insects of Guam I)
- Sceliphron, mud daubers, prey on spiders
- caementarium (Drury)
- latum Smith
- Chalybion, mud daubers, prey on spiders
- bengelensis Dahlbom
- Pison, mud daubers, prey on spiders
- Sphecinae, thread-waisted wasps
- Vespidae
- Eumeninae, mason and potter wasps
- Delta, prey on caterpillars
- campaniformis gracilis (Sassure)
- circinalis (F.)
- esuriens (F.)
- pyriforme (F.)
- Rygchium, nest in ground?
- haemorrihoidale
- quinquecinctum brunneum (F.)
- Subancistrocerus
- domesticus W.
- Delta, prey on caterpillars
- Eumeninae, mason and potter wasps
Conservation
LAMBERT, D. Conserving Australian Rock Art: A manual for site managers. Edited by Graeme K. Ward. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1989
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/gipri/web/public/pdf/bibliografiacomentada_parques.pdf
Watson, J.A. & J.M. Flood 1987. Termite and wasp damage to Australian rock art. Rock Art Research 4:17-28.
Wilson, M., Spriggs, M., and Lawson, E. (2001). Dating the Rock-Art of Vanuatu: AMSRadiocarbon Determinations from Abandoned Mud-Wasp Nests and Charcoal Pigmentfound in Sperimposition. Rock Art Research, 18(1):24–32.Australasian Connections and New Directions
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/conserv/web/index.html
In Australia it was found that damage by mud-daubing wasps subsided after the eradication of feral buffaloes. The disappearance of the buffalo wallows corrected an environmental imbalance and eliminated the supply of mud (Bednarik 1989).
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/conserv/web/allbio.html
Nests of mud-daubing insects, however, should be removed (after first wetting them, or during the wet season in the tropics; but see below), because it has been found that existing nests attract new ones (Naumann and Watson 1987).
