Takako ๐Happy to see the paperWasps in the wasp-house are thriving in my community garden plot. ๐ฅฐ๐๐โจ
So, all I managed to get is this lousy photo of four wary paperWasps staring. ๐ ๐๐คจ๐โจ
I was trying to take a photo of the paperWasps inside of one of the waspHouses in my community garden plot this evening. This one came out to protest wasp paparazzi. Theyโre so cute. ๐๐ฅฐ๐๐คจ๐โจ
37โ โ๏ธ today. The paperWasps are thriving in my community garden plot. So happy to see a few of them flying out of the waspHouse! ๐โจ
The paperWasps are in the house!!! ๐ฅฐ๐๐๐
(Click #WaspHouse for more info ;)
Three wasp houses for paperWasps now. Weโll see how they do.
This spring, two more queen wasps made their nest inside of the plastic storage bench. But the surface is too slick for their nest to stay attached when they get too big to support the weight. Iโve carefully attached their nests to two new waspHouses last week while the weather was still cool.
I found one of the paperWasp nests in the bottom of the storage bench (detouched from the slick plastic inner wall), still intact and guarded by the queen. While the queen wasp warily flew around me, I put it inside the new wasp house and situated it next to the one we made last year. I really hope she finds it. Theyโre in the background of this pic (in the top left) of green beans and snap peas protected by wire mesh cages.
We made a new wasp house for another paperWasps queen who made her nest in the storage bench in my plot. Iโve used wood glue instead of screws for this one. Iโll carefully attach the paperWasp hive inside at the garden while the temperature is still cool. We need another one for the second queen.
We have to make more proper housing for paperWasps. Two more queens have built their nests in the garden storage bench. ๐
Theyโre docile wasps, and it takes a lot to get them rowed up, but itโd be safer for them to be relocated, as we open the lid often to access the tools.
The queen in the wooden #waspHouse has made a new nestโif you look closely, thereโs an orange antenna and the wing behind the nest.
The paperWasps are doing well.
