As I look out my windows this morning there are a lot of bare branches, are the leaves finally down? They are in the back garden and reveal a hornets nest hanging on one of the branches over the house next door. These nests are made by the hornets after they have chewed wood to make a plup.. During the Summer we had a lot of hornets settle on an old wooden pole, and upon close inspection you could see them taking the soft outer grey layer of the wood off and exposing fresh clean brown wood. If we could get up to see the inside of this nest it would reveal layers of a thin paper mache and further inside would show the combs similar to those found in bee hives. Nature is so fascinating to watch, and when thinking about all the work that went into this nest those hornets worked for hours and hours to build it. I tried to take a photo of it, but it didn't turn out well enough to show.
We have a mixture of nice bright sunshine and dark grey clouds, Mother Nature can't make up her mind today to give us either one for the whole day. The dark ones are likely full of snow, so they can just blow right on by. It is quite cold out there also.
Not much happening today, only the regular routine things that need to be done.
Dinner tonight fish, veg and salad, will make a jelly with fruit for dessert.
Fascinating to delve into the life of insects but they are a nuisance in the summer, aren't they? Wasps are my most annoying. Hope the snow passed you by!
ReplyDeleteThe snow did not come, thank goodness.
DeleteWasps are a nuisance, I did get stung this past Summer.
Insects are amazing. A shame they can cause so much damage (thinking white ants/termites which are a huge problem here) but I guess they were here before us. Humankind forgets we are the interlopers in so many ways.
ReplyDeleteEvery country has pests that are a problem, the only time we are free of any is in the Winter. However, we do get small spiders that come into the house in the Winter.
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