I Found A Neat Thing
14 years ago
Oh noes, an opinione! So I'm watching the new King Kong and I decide I need to go to the garage to get some icecream. It's dark because at my aunt's I can't figure out how to turn the lights on in there, but the outside motion-triggered light fills it just enough to see to the freezer.
As I'm looking for the switch, I see something hanging from the roof. It's small, maybe an inch or so in length and made of a papery substance.
Brain immediately goes to wasp and, as it's looking patchy and is surrounded by cobwebs and empty, I pluck it down.
It is a beautiful, if not a bit tatty, little thing and you can see the little hexagonal cells inside, of which there's about four.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/imag....._paperwasp.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053.....c50d3d83cb.jpg
It looks kinda like these, so I'm guessing it was a solitary wasp nest. The differences are the outer shell only comes two-thirds down and the bottom of the bell tapers down a bit before the opening hole.
Still, awesomest find.
As I'm looking for the switch, I see something hanging from the roof. It's small, maybe an inch or so in length and made of a papery substance.
Brain immediately goes to wasp and, as it's looking patchy and is surrounded by cobwebs and empty, I pluck it down.
It is a beautiful, if not a bit tatty, little thing and you can see the little hexagonal cells inside, of which there's about four.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/imag....._paperwasp.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053.....c50d3d83cb.jpg
It looks kinda like these, so I'm guessing it was a solitary wasp nest. The differences are the outer shell only comes two-thirds down and the bottom of the bell tapers down a bit before the opening hole.
Still, awesomest find.
BirdSkull
~birdskull
Whoa epic :o Never seen a wasp or bee nest/ hive. I have seen a living bee hive though.
FrogsBreath
~frogsbreath
I didn't know wasps ever went solitary. It is damn cool looking.
sixshades
~sixshades
Huh! That is neat.
AkiraShima
∞akirashima
I love those types of nests. the only one i love better is the Potter wasp http://www.flickr.com/photos/looknf.....n/photostream/
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