I like to sit in the (otherwise useless) observatory these last few months of sunlight and work in the nice cool temps, or surf astromart etc. I can count on the tar paper above my head all the failed attempts to build nests this Summer.
Of all these attempts only one hornet was able to get a cone going on the ceiling... his bad luck as he was forced to move to a Kenmore vaccuum cleaner, house and all within 1 day. As for failed attempts... easily 200 nests were attempted to be started this year. I geuss there is something about the tar paper they cant deal with. Maybe it's not that they ~can't~ build on it, maybe it's that the asphalt vapors or whatever is just undesirable after it gets warm the next day. (edit: no its probably not real compatible with their attachment mechanism, all the failed nests basically look the same, a single mm wide line of hornet-grout of an almost identical nature)
They make me mental.. I think it was the major stinging event in my youth involing a low bush nest, and then an impromptu creek swim.
They all bother me... it's hornet after hornet but once in a while its the nasty looking multi segmented looking wasp like things I have no idea what they are but I know they are still angry about the creek thing. I am NOT at ONE with them.
Of all these attempts only one hornet was able to get a cone going on the ceiling... his bad luck as he was forced to move to a Kenmore vaccuum cleaner, house and all within 1 day. As for failed attempts... easily 200 nests were attempted to be started this year. I geuss there is something about the tar paper they cant deal with. Maybe it's not that they ~can't~ build on it, maybe it's that the asphalt vapors or whatever is just undesirable after it gets warm the next day. (edit: no its probably not real compatible with their attachment mechanism, all the failed nests basically look the same, a single mm wide line of hornet-grout of an almost identical nature)
They make me mental.. I think it was the major stinging event in my youth involing a low bush nest, and then an impromptu creek swim.
They all bother me... it's hornet after hornet but once in a while its the nasty looking multi segmented looking wasp like things I have no idea what they are but I know they are still angry about the creek thing. I am NOT at ONE with them.
