The Wasp Nest

My brother bought a wasp nest to school. It was so interesting that we did some writing about it. we found out what it is what the texture was what the size is and lots more. Here is mine.

The wasp nest is made of chewed sawdust. It is a light grey colour and has little bits of grass sticking out. It has  of dead wasps and they smell REALLY bad. The wasp nest has a large number of cells like a beehive. The cells were the shape of a hexagon and since it is made of paper it is very, very fragile. When the larvae that are inside the cells grow up they become nasty wasps. The cells are quite tough  because they used mud for the cells.

When our dad poisoned  the wasp nest he killed the queen. The queen is the wasp that makes the nest and lays wasp larvae. So if you kill the queen you might kill the nest. The worker wasps can make a new queen but if they don’t the nest will DIE. You can recognize the queen because she is bigger than all the other wasps. Still they can have more than one queen at once! The time to try and kill the nest is in spring because that is when they are weakest. My recommended poison is petrol because if you put it at the entrance they will breathe it in and get poisoned and then almost as soon as they breathe it in they will die.

The wasp nest is very, very flaky. Since it is made of paper it is very delicate. The entrance is a very small hole in the wasp nest but you can’t see though it very well.  The hole is how the wasps get in. The wasp nest is also very small. Since my brother brought in a wasp nest we found out all this data about it and it was very interesting!