#wasp nests

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[heartnosekid]

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[the-animal-kingdom]

Did you know, that wasps can create their own paper? This material is what is used to create wasp nests. When a lone Queen wasp finds a good place to build, she begins to chew on wood fibres, mixes it with her saliva and then spits it back out to form walls. The nest starts as a durable, vertical stalk and then she builds an inverted cup shape that has 6 sided cells, as a nursery for larva. She also sprays this first part of the nest with a chemical that is able to repel ants.

When she is done with the first part, the Queen wasp lays eggs in the cells she created and when they then reach adulthood, these worker wasps will then continue to build the nest, allowing for the Queen to resign to egg laying.

It can typically take a hive around 2-4 weeks to build a full, finished nest.

[sofiaflorina2021]

The Nest of the Mud-Dauber Wasps that I Found

The nest of the mud-dauber wasps that I found in between my pile of books. Usually I like to crush their abandoned nests but this one is really nice, a work of nature's art, it's beautiful. The most likely species is Asian mud-dauber wasp (Sceliphron curvatum).

Their nests are structurally fragile, that's why i like to crush them with my fingers. Although they are parasitoids (not to humans), they are useful in reducing spiders. But yeah, I try to avoid them as much as possible, just as they avoid me because I'm human.

Taken on Friday, 9 May, 2025 at 08:08 with Samsung Galaxy A05s in my grandma's backyard.

[shiftythrifting]

From The Heart of Ohio

Cool old lunchbox. I really would have bought it if it was useable, but I couldn't clean it.

A musical lighter with Mount Fuji on it. It was in a case so we didn't get to hear what song it was

Bok choy

All the mortar and pestles in the world

And a hornets nest for 85 whole american dollars for some reason.

[mckitterick]

The world of insects has invented aircraft carriers

[ ID: a snail bearing a wasp's nest on its shell ]

[mayorwhisper]

Thanks Judy 😑

[mvaljean525]

When foxes eat the last gold grape, And the last white antelope is killed, I shall stop fighting and escape Into a little house I'll build.

But first I'll shrink to fairy size, With a whisper no one understands, Making blind moons of all your eyes, And muddy roads of all your hands.

And you may grope for me in vain In hollows under the mangrove root, Or where, in apple-scented rain, The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit.

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Escape

Elinor Wylie  1885-1928

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Graphic - Pere Borrell del Caso  1835-1910