May 24, 2007: Wasp builds home

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

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

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

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

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..

be-bop;346535 wrote:

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.

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

;)

(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)

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

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

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

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

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.

busterb;346595 wrote:

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

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

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,

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.