The wasp will go back to its nest with a small pellet of wood in its mouth and create a sort of laminate of the wood pulp, a bit like paper, that dries and solidifies. This process is repeated ...

The nests start to develop in late spring, when queen wasps emerge from hibernation. Building a small nest of just a few paper cells, the queen must rear the first set of workers alone before the ...

But only some will survive the winter. Those that do, emerge when the weather warms up. These female wasps begin to form new colonies. After building a small nest, the new queen lays eggs of the first ...

The queen is then resigned to laying eggs for the rest of her life. Wasps are architects, continually growing their nests to house the rising numbers of insects in the colony. Some species' nests are ...

A wasp's nest outside of your home is bad enough ... such as weathered wood or small garden insects. The other reason that removing flowers isn't going to be sufficient is that wasps don't ...