in the eye _0 ow

Well, just under the eye...but you know. Doesn't really matter in that location.

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AAAAAGGGHHH!!!

Is little nest! I -love- wasps ... just not living on my house or where the party goers are going to be hanging out outside - so, the colonies near go pretty much upon discovery.

Still, love the antennae - on these they're like stylized bunny ears, and the 'U' shape down the middle of their forehead makes them look a lot more 'furry' than your average bug for some reason - broader longer head with muzzle?

Plus a lotta wasps are sisters lay eggs communally and don't have a single female queen lording it over her hive.

I tend to leave the nests alone as wasps tend to be pretty non-aggressive...unless you do something stupid.

I hope to get more wasps as I come across them. They normally don't sit this still and this nest was very low to the ground so I got lucky here.

In the thumbnail the arrangement of the wasps looked so symmetrical that I thought it was CGI at first, very nice capture.

Thank you. :)

They decided to pose for me I suppose, although it looks like they're about to try and kick my ass. :/

Those guys look big and creepy. :S I've never been stung before and don't plan on starting. Still, I'm absolutely enthralled by your photographic skill. ^_^ Keep these up.

Thank you very much. :D

These guys are around 1 inch long or so.

If you want BIG, then you should see the Cicada Killer. First time I saw those I thought I had mutant wasps.

Don't scare me like that! :P I've researched a lot on the Japanese Giant Hornets. Those guys are mean. >_<

Nice photo! ^^ I like how three of them appear to be looking down at you...XD

I've got regular wasps...I forgot what they're called, but they're yellow and black and not compact like some others...mud-dauber wasps, I think it was. Anyway, several of them are buzzing around almost constantly at times up near my door and inside the spaces between the door and the house, and a few times, one has even gotten inside and I've had to put it out again. And, on top of that, I've seen them depositing spiders and globs of mud-stuff inside a space in the door handle...o.o Thet're not making a nest anywhere obvious, though, that I can see. Queue, do you have any guesses as to what's goin' on there? XD

I couldn't say what kind of wasp they are for sure, but they've probably got a nest in the cracks there.

They'll build chambers with mud and deposit paralyzed prey (in this case, spiders) into the chamber with their eggs. When the eggs hatch, the larva will feed on the spiders until they pupate and then grow into adult wasps.

Adult wasps aren't carnivorous and feed on nectar.

For some reason these guys give me the creeps. They don't look dangerous, but they look big. o_o

Hehe. They look bigger than they are for sure. :)

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I have to admit I love wasps, but I'm too scared to go near them.