Mystery creature....what it is...??

[/pine]

My brother sent me this picture of a small bird house that hangs on their porch...

quoted is what he asked...anyone have any ideas ?

This is a little bird house decor 6"by 6" on our patio. Whatever creature is using it has us baffled. Its some type of insect like a wasp or bee. We've never seen it only its mouth sealing the hole back up.
It's been there for months.

 

[ovrszd]

Not knowing locale makes it more difficult.

I'm guessing it put itself in a cocoon?

 

[/pine]

I did find this : http://www.natureconservationimaging.com/images/Symmorphus-bifasciatus-recycling.jpg

Talked to my brother again on the west coast of FL....he said whatever it is leaves through a small hole then seals it up again after it returns...he is trying to get a camera set up to monitor it...

 

[MossRoad]

Hermit wasp

 

[ovrszd]

Hermit wasp

Is that your final answer Moss?

 

[ovrszd]

Sounds logical. Huge nest to fill a 6x6 box. How many of them little beggars ya reckon are in there???

Nothing like that here that I've saw.

 

[widefat]

Tell your brother to move. I've seen things like this in movies, and it never turn out well.

 

[cqaigy2]

We had paper wasp move into a metal roundish bird nest. The came and went through a short pipe entrance. Eventually covered the whole thing in paper. They weren't very good bird nest, never had any bird move in before the wasp did.

 

[/pine]

Hermit wasp

Good one...!

Tell your brother to move. I've seen things like this in movies, and it never turn out well.

LoL...I relayed the message...!

We had paper wasp move into a metal roundish bird nest. The came and went through a short pipe entrance. Eventually covered the whole thing in paper. They weren't very good bird nest, never had any bird move in before the wasp did.

No sign of typical paper nest...he said the substance is gelatinous and the blacker stuff was like tar...the picture is deceptive for scale...it is not really a bird box...much smaller and meant as decor and not an actual bird house...

 

[BRMyers]