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I came across an interesting tidbit of information the other day.

It turns out that "mud daubers" (wasps that make houses from mud) are responsible for at least 2 major airline crashes in the last 33 years killing at least 223 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber#Involvement_in_Flori...

One in 1980, and one in 1996... that we know of.

Apparently these mud daubers love living in long cylinders. If they find one, say on a plane's uncovered instruments, they'll set up shop.

If you look at it under the right light, mud daubers are approximately 1/20th as powerful and threatening as the world's terrorists of the last 33 years.

This URL has some numbers of terrorist caused deaths over a similar timeframe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Global_Terrorism



Regarding mud daubers, that article you linked to said:

> This species also brought down another plane in Washington during 1982.

Which, in addition to the crashes of the Florida Commuter Airlines flight (1980) and Birgenair flight (1996) makes it 3 planes mud daubers have brought down.




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