Thread: Wasp nest?
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Old 29-10-2007, 07:30 PM
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Re: Wasp nest?

I would agree that this looks like a failed nest... probably no more than the nest constructed by the queen herself.

As to species... it looks like the nest is a pale beige colour (not 100% certain as the flash from the camera could wash out colours). Beige nests would indicate Vespula vulgaris or hornets (Vespa crabro) The beige coloration is produced as a result of using rotten wood as a source of wood pulp.

This nest looks altogether too flimsy to have been a hornet nest.
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