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What's outside of your picture window today?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 8 2:18pm | Replies (2400)Comment receiving replies
Outside my front door in the top right corner is a small round nest. This is where wasps used to start building their nests but since they're aggressive, I knock those down. I've only seen a couple of these guys, sort of a rust color and they ignore me. Info I found:
"Bald-faced Hornets are known for their large ball-shaped paper nest, which they build in the spring for raising their young." They also fight wasps.
And a picture of Tedi, just because.
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Tedi is surveying his (her?) realm.
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Hi @vellen. I agree, next to the front door isn’t a good place for these paper wasp nests. But if you have them around in a place that doesn’t pose a threat to you, let them hang until the bees move out in the fall. These are really beneficial bees and usually don’t pose a threat to people and the spent nests make really excellent paper for art projects!
I collect the old nests and carefully pull the layers apart, preserving them for the paper! You can paint on the paper with different mediums, use as backgrounds for artwork, I even stitch the paper in art quilts. ☺️
Aw, Teri is adorable! Thank you for sharing!