Empty Nest

Empty Nest

To rear their young, Bald-faced Hornets start a new nest each spring. The queen finds loose bark into which she places her eggs and adds saliva to the paper bark to form the paper-like smooth shell. These nests may eventually contain thousands of hornets which are very aggressive when disturbed. Luckily this nest was down and empty; I have been chased by hornets through the forest, and badly stung. Dolichovespula maculata

Categories: [Sierra Mixed Conifer]  [insects and arachnids]  

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  • Very interesting photo... I'll be careful in the woods -- I'm not sure if I can run as fast as I used to... Must have been terrible to have gotten stung!
    Donald Kinney @ 08-27-2009
  • I would have never spotted that, great eye.
    Ashish Sidapara @ 08-30-2009
  • here, in your photo, it looks so peaceful - like a geological formation that took eons to form.
    grant @ 08-30-2009

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Empty Nest

Empty Nest

To rear their young, Bald-faced Hornets start a new nest each spring. The queen finds loose bark into which she places her eggs and adds saliva to the paper bark to form the paper-like smooth shell. These nests may eventually contain thousands of hornets which are very aggressive when disturbed. Luckily this nest was down and empty; I have been chased by hornets through the forest, and badly stung. Dolichovespula maculata

Categories: [Sierra Mixed Conifer]  [insects and arachnids]  

Latest Comment

  • Very interesting photo... I'll be careful in the woods -- I'm not sure if I can run as fast as I used to... Must have been terrible to have gotten stung!
    Donald Kinney @ 08-27-2009
  • I would have never spotted that, great eye.
    Ashish Sidapara @ 08-30-2009
  • here, in your photo, it looks so peaceful - like a geological formation that took eons to form.
    grant @ 08-30-2009

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