Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Wasps Nest


The local electric company recently hired a company to cut back the branches and trees that were close to the power lines, which is good, though I personally think they cut down way more than necessary on our property but I am not going to go into that now. What we discovered was a huge wasps nest that I couldn't resist taking pictures of. I think they were bald faced paper wasps. (I am not really fond of insects, spiders or snakes but feel compelled to photograph them.) I did get quite close as there didn't seem to be any activity around the nest except for one lone wasp that you can probably see in the picture. I am not a complete fool. I wouldn't have ventured too close if it seemed like there was a lot of activity. I also went out early in the morning when the temps were in the low 30's so if there were wasps they wouldn't be moving too fast. I took several close ups but wish there had been something close by to compare it to so that you could really get a sense of how big this thing is. I mean it is easily the size of a basketball!

3 comments:

ColoradoChris said...

Daaaamn...

Mom/gram said...

WOW,Cyndi,That is a big one.How far up the tree was it?The story goes,the height of the nest in the tree,is how much snow we are going to get.Hope it wasn't up far.

Mom

Cyndi said...

If that is true we are in luck! It was only about 3 feet off the ground which is a lot better than the 10 feet we got last year. Of course we could get that much in just one storm...but if that was the only storm....