May 24, 2007: Wasp builds home

Undertoad · 05-24-2007, 07:29 AM

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

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

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Originally Posted by be-bop

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

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Originally Posted by busterb

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

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

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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,

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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.

05-24-2007, 07:29 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	May 24, 2007: Wasp builds home Presented with no further explanation, xoB finds this beautiful set of a wasp building a nest.

05-24-2007, 05:14 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It seems kind of lonely, in a table for one kind of way. Real good photography, though. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-24-2007, 08:36 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	What? No 2.5 car garage with opener, no three bathrooms? I can't believe those pictures were taken in America...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-24-2007, 08:38 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	(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) __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-24-2007, 08:38 PM	#9
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I need a large economy sized can of Raid House and Garden just thinking about looking at these. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-24-2007, 07:57 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Very nice. What serendipity that they were there with the camera just as this wasp started building the nest on the statue.

05-24-2007, 08:24 AM	#3
Emrikol Compatriot-at-Arms Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 107	sigh just another chunk of mud I'll have to scrape off when they get done with it

05-24-2007, 05:34 PM	#5
be-bop Operations Operative Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland/uk Posts: 664	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..

05-24-2007, 08:54 PM	#10
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Looks like a dirtdabber to me, not a wasp. But whf do i know? __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-24-2007, 08:58 PM	#11
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Too bright and too mean-looking, it's a wasp. shudder __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

05-25-2007, 12:50 AM	#12
lizzymahoney Major Inhabitant Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 124	A mud dauber is a wasp, if that's the same as a dirtdabber.

05-25-2007, 05:59 AM	#13
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	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.

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