Hereโs the video: the moving of a paperWasp hive (in 2017 before I thought of the #waspHouse ). They thrived that summer. ๐โจ
Saw the first paper #wasp queen claiming one of the #WaspHouse-s this afternoon in our #communityGarden plotโ#GardenPlot14! ๐ฅฐ *made my day*
I believe they inherit the memory of their ancestorsโ unsuccessful nest building in our plastic garden tool storage bench, and of the failed nest having been moved to the wooden wasp house nearby.
This wasp queen was hovering near the tool bench before deciding to go into the wasp house. They can learn, but it seems to take a few generations. ๐ ๐โจ
Happy 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.
Takako ๐
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