Fledgling wasp nest under construction

A small group of bees begin to build a nest in a large metal fireplace/ornament of ours in the backyard.

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Pets & Animals

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• Bees
• hive
• nest
• nature
• fast
• motion

[musicmaker838]

Woah, are you gonna get rid of it? =S

[Joe22c]

Hey, and nah, I think they're suppose to die off when winter comes so I figure I'll just leave them be lol

[gbaader]

This is a wasp's nest, not bees. They are beneficial too. I have two under the eaves of my house after removing over 5 already I decided to leave them. Great clip and I love the music and comments with it.

[Joe22c]

Hey, thanks for the comment; glad you appreciate the music and comments haha.

Ahh, after spending more time looking into it, I think you're right. They're certainly more slim than plump; the nest appears more paper-like than waxy; and the nest is more horizontal than vertical.

I think this may be a species of paper-wasp? I don't know much on the subject, unfortunately. What happens during the winter?

[Minecraftpromoter1]

i walked on my porch today and a nest was right next to the door a wasp flew right at my face! i ducked away from it and ran inside

[ItsKeroki]

Those are not bees -.- bees collect honey..wasps dont. bees are brown.

bees dance yes, but that wasp isnt 'dancing'.

[legoman6986]

at 0:51 it looks like a bee just fell

[gabe0083]

spray their asses with RAID

[Ray77063]

The wasp that is inspected at 0:55 is the queen. She lays an egg at 1:29. See her stick her abdomen backwards into a cell? Queens suppress the sexual development of their daughters through excretion of pheromones. If the queen dies, her daughters will mature and lay unfertilized eggs that will hatch into drones (males). Eventually, one young queen will have killed all of her rivals and remain the single egg-laying member of the colony.

[Ray77063]

In the fall, drones and young queens are raised. The drones mate with the virgin queens and die with the workers in the winter. The queens hibernate. In the Spring the queens emerge from hibernation and start new nests.

[varocks183]

wait for it to get real big soak a newspaper in gasoline [ or stick a fire bomb in there ] then light the newspaper then walla dead bees and burning nest!!!1

[herc1120]

This video is a perfect example of the workings of a colony. You can see the exchange of food between the females, the tending of larvae, soliciting of food by the more dominant workers when the forager returns at 1:42.

[herc1120]

They would (were) Polistes dominula formerly P. dominulus. They originated from Europe, but now are well established in much if the United States.