I've never seen one with color other than grey before. I wonder where the wasps got it? When I look up "paper wasp" most information is how to get rid of them. I don't want to! I do knock down the beginning of nests if I see them on the house. Mud daubers too.
Lisa, I love those "paper" nests. When we lived on Fern Ridge Lake, there was a massive one fairly high up in a tree where I walked most days -- It didn't look like it was still occupied and I kept kind of hoping it would blow down so I could really look at it but it never did and then one year when we came back from Florida it was just gone. I know I took pictures of it but no idea where they are.
Yikes. I hope you found that empty...
ReplyDeleteYes, it was laying under a cedar tree. Blew down, perhaps.
DeleteI've never dared to look at one up close. Interesting bands of color.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen one with color other than grey before. I wonder where the wasps got it? When I look up "paper wasp" most information is how to get rid of them. I don't want to! I do knock down the beginning of nests if I see them on the house. Mud daubers too.
DeleteThey create such nice and symmetrical designs.
ReplyDeleteThey really do!
DeleteLisa, I love those "paper" nests. When we lived on Fern Ridge Lake, there was a massive one fairly high up in a tree where I walked most days -- It didn't look like it was still occupied and I kept kind of hoping it would blow down so I could really look at it but it never did and then one year when we came back from Florida it was just gone. I know I took pictures of it but no idea where they are.
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