Wasp nests

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26.04.2013 10:08, Hierophis

Just specially stood waiting on the balcony - flying uterus!

So I decided to watch the foraging, while watching, I learned so much new about the inhabitants of the balcony ))
It turns out that osmium lives in the same stump in the gap, polist's uterus has settled between the balconies, rather dominuli, and titmice-kapets live in an old bag))))))

The queen flew out of the nest at 9: 35
returned 10 minutes later at 9: 45 with a hefty lump, apparently for the larvae it bit some flies

Barely flew, it was such a big lump..
And then.. she spent 20 whole minutes there in the nest doing something, probably feeding each larva

, and finally flew out again at 10: 04.

And osmium, on the contrary, arrived with pollen on its paws, literally in 5 seconds it flew out without pollen .. and so it did not fly in 25 minutes, it takes a long time to collect pollen)))

27.04.2013 19:23, Назар

Hello everyone Finally, it's a good warm up, spring is late this year, the snow has been lying for a long time.

Now just a lot of queens fly. I decided to look for wasp nests near the house, while there are only two nests in the garden-one in an old box from the parcel and, today, another nest appeared, not far from the same box, to the left at the top under the roof. That box has been there for several years, I completely forgot about it, last year I remembered and found two old nests inside, one of wasps, the second of hornets, but only the uterine ones, not developed, I put them away and put the box again. And in the attic I wrote about last year, there are no nests yet, I just drilled a few extra holes in the boards to make it easier for the wasps to get in. Today I saw two hornets there, one flew out later, and the other just sat there, huddled in a corner, and almost didn't move. When I was there, another wasp flew in, examined several boards, and flew away, never returning, apparently she didn't like something. Oh, it would be great if there were hornets living there. I hope that this year there will be full-fledged nests, and not like last year, when all the queens died.

The first nest is under the roof, the photo is slightly blurred.

Second nest, the wasp enters the box

General photo, the first nest in the box with a hole, the second-from the top left behind the boards under the roof.

27.04.2013 21:45, Hierophis

Nazar, hi! Wow, you certainly definitely have more oss and more types! I'm still afraid to even look at the uterus that has settled on the balcony, I don't even come close, and I can't see what kind of uterus, German or vulgaris.
And even when the swifts squeak as much as scary, and these titmice kaike something suspicious-see and strive to skhrumat uterus ))))
I don't even dream about hornets, although I'm thinking of putting up a few houses in the places where they are found, while I still have time, in case I get lucky.

Here's what's interesting - I noticed from observations that the German wasps have somewhere around 20-25 cells of the uterus, but in the photo what kind of uterus curled up around the honeycomb? Is this the maximum of cells or will it still build?

30.04.2013 23:14, Назар

I went to the garden to see the wasps today, so far everything is fine, the uterus is alive, which pleases.

I moved the box a little and shone a flashlight inside (a box without a bottom), it turned out that there was not one socket in the box, but two! Strange, apparently two queens build nests separately, or is it still one wasp? I was also in that attic, when I came in, a wasp flew out to meet me (there is a hole above the door, covered with a grid with rather large cells). There were no new nests in the back of the attic, but I could see the rudimentary nest near the door in the back. I thought it was abandoned, but no, I waited a bit and a uterus flew through the net to him, this is what I saw when I entered the attic. It is interesting that on this side of the attic near the door there were never full-fledged nests, only rudimentary ones. In addition, I checked another place for wasps - the space between the barn doors under the same attic.
I cleaned the cobweb hole between the door halves there the day before yesterday, and today I found a new nest, which the female attached to an old, dilapidated large nest. Having found the wasp, I immediately closed the door, so that it would not interfere, tomorrow I will try to take a photo when it flies out. Thus, we managed to find three more nests.

Rudimentary nest in the attic

A wasp in the bud of its nest. The photo turned out badly, as I had to raise the sensitivity and shutter speed, since it's too dark there, and I didn't want to blind the wasp with a flash.