• wasp nests are made of chewed wood mixed with saliva to make a papery substance.
• nly fertilised queens survive the winter to start a new colony every year.
• Old nests are abandoned and fresh ones built every year.
• Larger wasps nests can house up to 20,000 workers in one season.
• Nests are built underground, in roofs or hollow trees.
• Wasps will catch and kill other insects to feed to their grubs and will also collect nectar from flowers and other sweet things such as fruit.
• Although not usually seen as a beneficial insect, the grubs eat thousands ofinsect pests.
• The large hornet will plunder the nests of bumble and honey bees for prey.

Wasps at work building their nest

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