"Trypoxylon politum" - Pipe Organ Mud Dauber Videos

This is a "Dirt Dauber" from coastal, southeastern North Carolina. This species is black, with a blue tint in its wings in the light and yellow feet. It builds a pipe shaped nest from mud. This particular group of mud daubers were building their nests under a barn.

Kingdom Animalia (Animals) 
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) 
Class Insecta (Insects) 
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies) 
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps) 
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae) 
Family Crabronidae 
Subfamily Crabroninae (Square-headed Wasps) 
Genus Trypoxylon 
No Taxon (Subgenus Trypargilum) 
Species politum (Pipe organ mud dauber)

Thanks to Bug Guide for the identification.

Crabronidae, Latreille, 1802, Taxonomic Serial No.: 709291

Kingdom Animalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux   
     Phylum Arthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode   
        Subphylum Hexapoda  -- hexapods   
           Class Insecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto   
              Subclass Pterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects   
                 Infraclass Neoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects   
                    Order Hymenoptera  -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps   
                       Suborder Apocrita  -- abeilles, ants, bees, fourmis, guêpes véritables, narrow-waisted hymenopterans, true wasps   
                          Infraorder Aculeata     
                             Superfamily Apoidea  -- apoid wasps, bees, sphecoid wasps   
                                Family Crabronidae Latreille, 1802 -- cicadakillers, crabronid wasps, mud daubers, sand wasps   

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