Daily Archives: December 22nd, 2008

A Wasp in Winter

Saw this last week and was really fascinated by the combo of snow and what I suspect is a hornet’s nest.
Where are they now? If it’s a bald-faced hornet nest, nearly all of them are dead. The nests are abandoned in winter, and all the non-reproductive hornets die. A fertilized queen will overwinter in the [...]