iDRY Vacuum Kilns

Sponsors:

Wasps

Started by Don_Papenburg, July 28, 2006, 10:50:48 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Don_Papenburg

I was up on the scafold looking at brickwork that I have to do, and there are busy little wasps flying back and forth hauling things to their nests . One was carrying grass blades a bit longer than himself and stuffing them into a small crack where two 2xs meet .  He was cutting this grass because it was green and moist .   What kind of wasp builds with grass ?  I know of paper wasps because we have lots of them . and then there is the mud daubers that build houses out of mud.  I have never seen a wasp build with grass.
Frick saw mill  '58   820 John Deere power. Diamond T trucks

beenthere

Don
Same here.
Last year I first noticed them, and this year there are more of them. I searched on 'wasp grass' and came up with a few hits on "grass-carrier wasp", one of which is from Iowa State

Grass-Carrier Wasp

Mine are in the slider window tracks and make a mess plugging them up. Seem to be a black wasp doing the carrying.
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

Don_Papenburg

The one at my place was redish brown
Frick saw mill  '58   820 John Deere power. Diamond T trucks

Thank You Sponsors!