Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: paper wasp

  • Plight of the Polistes

    Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. ~Jean-Henri Fabre, entomologist, 1823-1915 We had a wasp sting two weeks ago at summer camp. The wasps had a nest inside the locking mechanism for one of our pedestrian gates, and when Read more…