I don't know if the queen will stay with this nest but I plan on checking it in a week or so to see if she has added to her castle. Of course, if she has, and if her first offspring have matured, I doubt I will be getting anymore interior shots :)
4.18.2007
Take a Peek
I don't know if the queen will stay with this nest but I plan on checking it in a week or so to see if she has added to her castle. Of course, if she has, and if her first offspring have matured, I doubt I will be getting anymore interior shots :)
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Hornets ...hmmm. Be careful, don't do anything ...well, you know.
I'll tell you what - I clicked again and that is a fine photo. You've got more backbone than I. Is 'tennis ball' size typical for the bald hornet or will this thing expand as the colony grows?
Now FC, you know I would never do anything foolish ;)
Cathy,
It will get MUCH bigger if the queen doesn't abandon it. I have seen some that are as big as basketballs. I'll try to find a photo of one in a more advanced state than this one. Trust me, if I had thought that there were more than one or two hornets in that nest I would have never taken the photo! Hornets are very protective of their nests.
All I have to do is get close to a nest and they come for me. I had one at Roundrock that was the size of a basketball. The branch it was hanging from had broken in a storm and the hornets were angry: sting on my back.
Pablo,
I feel your pain - stings by any of the paper wasps are quite painful. I have had experience :)
i didn't think the queen ever got to leave the, ehem, domestic sphere--i thought she had to stay home and give birth, like, every .23 seconds . . .
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