Saturday, 6 February 2016

Waspishly cunning guests



















We often get native wasps coming to stay for a while. Here are this year's visitors. They are common (native) paper wasps, and they're pretty harmless. Unless you directly threaten the nest, that is. So we don't.

They're rather beautiful too, and the queen is very cunning,the way she runs the show. Here's the ABC Science unit's description of how it all works: 
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/10/04/3327168.htm

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