How does a Queen wasp build her nest?

🐝 All wasps nests are rebuilt from scratch every season, Queen wasps will emerge from hibernation around March depending on the climate.
These queen wasps head off to find their nesting site for the year which is commonly in inconvenient places around our homes!

Once the Queen wasp has found a suitable location to build her wasp nest, she will begin to harvest wood from fences or garden furniture etc, which she mixes with her saliva to create paper.

She will build a small paper wasp nest that resembles a golf ball, and around 10-20 egg chambers will be made inside.

The queen wasps will then lay eggs in these chambers and tend to them, once these baby wasps hatch she the queen will no longer leave the nest. It will be these new “worker” wasps job to provide food and material to build the wasps nest even larger, from this point the Queen wasp will become an egg production machine!


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