Female potter wasp building a mud nest.

A female Fraternal Potter Wasp (Eumenes fraternus) building the mud nest where she will lay an egg. She will then paralyze a caterpillar (keeps it alive 😬) to insert into it, for when her larva needs a food source. She feeds on nectar.
NE US
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