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Undertoad 05-24-2007 07:29 AM

May 24, 2007: Wasp builds home
 
http://cellar.org/2007/wasphome1.jpg

Presented with no further explanation, xoB finds this beautiful set of a wasp building a nest.

http://cellar.org/2007/wasphome2.jpg

http://cellar.org/2007/wasphome3.jpg

http://cellar.org/2007/wasphome4.jpg

http://cellar.org/2007/wasphome5.jpg

glatt 05-24-2007 07:57 AM

Very nice. What serendipity that they were there with the camera just as this wasp started building the nest on the statue.

Emrikol 05-24-2007 08:24 AM

*sigh* just another chunk of mud I'll have to scrape off when they get done with it ;)

xoxoxoBruce 05-24-2007 05:14 PM

It seems kind of lonely, in a table for one kind of way. Real good photography, though.

be-bop 05-24-2007 05:34 PM

Aaaaaaaaaarrrgh kill it,stomp on it wasps are the skinheads of the insect world they'll sting you because they can kill kill kill.......


(Sorry got a thing about wasps hate the Buggers) got badly stung as a kid, had a bit of a phobia since..

HungLikeJesus 05-24-2007 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by be-bop (Post 346535)
Aaaaaaaaaarrrgh kill it,stomp on it wasps are the skinheads of the insect world they'll sting you because they can kill kill kill.......


(Sorry got a thing about wasps hate the Buggers) got badly stung as a kid, had a bit of a phobia since..

Ahhh, now we know what's causing the great bee die-off/colony collapse.
...

This picture illustrates the limited depth of field in a close-up photo.

monster 05-24-2007 08:36 PM

What? No 2.5 car garage with opener, no three bathrooms? I can't believe those pictures were taken in America......

;)

monster 05-24-2007 08:38 PM

(If it tastes like chicken, I reckon it's more of a wing flavor 'cause there's not a whole load of meat on there)

wolf 05-24-2007 08:38 PM

I need a large economy sized can of Raid House and Garden just thinking about looking at these.

busterb 05-24-2007 08:54 PM

Looks like a dirtdabber to me, not a wasp. But whf do i know?

Ibby 05-24-2007 08:58 PM

Too bright and too mean-looking, it's a wasp.
*shudder*

lizzymahoney 05-25-2007 12:50 AM

A mud dauber is a wasp, if that's the same as a dirtdabber.

SPUCK 05-25-2007 05:59 AM

The spiders she's gonna paralyze and stuff in that hole with eggs layed on em are going to do the real suffering.

Think Alien..... Still my favorite movie.

xoxoxoBruce 05-25-2007 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by busterb (Post 346595)
Looks like a dirtdabber to me, not a wasp. But whf do i know?

Wasps, that are not white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant.
Quote:

Wasp, common name applied to most species of hymenopteran insects, except bees and ants. Insects known as wasps include the sawflies, the parasitic wasps, and the stinging wasps, which are the best known. About 75,000 species of wasps are known, most of them parasitic.
Like humans, only the females are dangerous,
Quote:

All female stinging wasps can defend themselves and their nests by using their ovipositor to inject venom. Males do not have a stinger.
Bye....gotta go hide now.


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