Friday, October 9, 2020

Return to Bentsen Park

 Hello, everyone.

We're returning to walking on a schedule (yay!) and this week we went back to Bentsen Park. It was lovely walking, not crowded, and we saw something I'd not seen down here before.


I think these are two wasp nests on the same tree. They were flat but looking through the phone camera lens it appeared there were cells, one layer deep only, and there were lots of brown bugs on them looking down at us. Paper wasp? 

I was surprised not only to see this type of wasp--definitely not the more usual yellow jackets!--and to see them so close together. Wouldn't the wasps fight to keep apart?

This tree is on the main road between the group picnic area and the volunteer hut at the entrance. We only saw the nests on our return route, because of the way the morning light hit them.



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