Gimme shelter
Paper Wasp congregation, home
It's almost summery warm, and even though you could easily delude yourself into thinking that the cold weather won't ever arrive, the queen paper wasps know better. Throughout the nicer days of early- to mid-October—and sometimes, sporadically, until Thanksgiving—the females, probably all of them already mated and inseminated, are on the wing and exploring the cracks between the wood shingles in search of suitable places in which they'll hide from the winter. Today, I'm thinking about hitting the beach in shorts; today, for the first time this season, the rulers of the vespid genus Polistes are getting serious about the shelter business.
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