Raw material
If I hadn’t seen them do it, I wouldn’t have known what had caused this.
This is part of the gate of our old house, where wasps have pared some of the weathered top layer of the wood away to make their paper nest. It makes an intriguing small scratchy noise when you actually happen to be there while they’re doing it.
Here’s a detail at full resolution:
It’s interesting that they do it only vertically; the rest of the fence is of the same wood, equally weathered, but with horizontal slats, and it doesn’t show any evidence of wasp-paring at all.
Posted: 16-Jul-2008 | /life_and_art/wonderful_world | link | 0 comments
