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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

wasp ball

Is it the start of a wasp nest? Is a queen wasp in there somewhere? I took the picture last year just before this particular field was cut for hay.

Update: 2008 01 26

Thanks to Fanackerpan for giving me the answers I needed. Here are some links I found explaining further.

notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com have this – Mobs of Honeybees Suffocate Hornets to Death

Science news have Balls of Fire: Bees carefully cook invaders to death.