FACTS I learned last week about paper wasps:

🐝 Paper wasps exist. (we did not have paper wasps in CA).

🐝 In the spring paper wasp queens emerge and look for good places to build nests.

🐝 Paper wasp queens like dark sheltered places, such as, say, a pair of garden boots left out on the porch.

🐝 Unlike yellowjackets, paper wasps will usually leave you alone unless you bother them.

🐝 Putting your bare foot into a garden boot with a paper wasp in it counts as bothering. 😬

#Gardening

@lemay Ouch. Ours have shown a remarkably consistent sense of Feng Shui, reliably picking the same areas for nests year after year. Maybe a sacrificial boot might appease yours.
@lemay this is the road to Master Gardener - gotta pay your dues on the way
@lemay I, too, took up gardening for the adrenaline rush.
@lemay I actually whispered β€œHoly shit” out loud.
@lemay Is this what your nests look like?
@jef We had a hornet's nest on the garage like that last year, size of a softball, but the paper wasp nests are open on the bottom. (none yet this year)
@lemay Do they have an outer shell and a kind of ziggurat inside? I've had some of those.
@lemay Paper wasp nests have been used in cartoons farily frequently- what did you think they were?
@lemay I hope your foot is ok!