The queen is the largest in the colony and her ... Unlike the large globular nests of the hornets, those of the paper wasps are simply a mass of uncovered cells, ranging in numbers from ffty ...

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 ...

If the queen can't find a nest site and ... Larvae rely entirely on older generations to survive. Wasps collect pulp to smooth into hexagonal paper cells (similar to the inside of a honey bee ...