Queen

Last spring, I saw and enjoyed watching a beautiful paper wasp beginning her nest. It's something I look forward to every year.

 

How incredible is that? To take a mouthful of wood fibres, chew and mix with saliva, then build intricate, tiny, perfectly shaped hexagonal cells, all connected together for your babies.

 

This female will become the queen if the colony can be established.

 

Polistes humilis 20 mm body length

 

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