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paper wasp nest

Polistes sp.

Photo by AnnaWhipkey
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Ava T-B
Thanks, and thanks for the book recommendation! I'm slowly reading a book called Avian Architecture by Goodfellow about how birds make their varied kinds of nests.
AnnaWhipkey
Great idea for a mission. It reminded me of Animal Architecture by Karl Von Frisch
Ava T-B
Interesting! Thanks for the link.
AnnaWhipkey
Ava, this rotary jail is in Crawfordsville, Indiana. There are 16 wedge-shaped cells, in 2 tiers, enclosed in a stationary cage. There is one door on each tier and cell block is rotated to an individual cell to allow a prisoner to move in or out of a cell and only one guard was needed to watch the prisoners. This was the Montgomery county jail until 1973. http://www.rotaryjailmuseum.org/
Ava T-B
AnnaWhipkey, thanks for joining the animal architecture mission! And what's a rotary jail?
AnnaWhipkey
thanks Longmustache, this nest was spotted on the outside of the only still-operating rotary jail in the US

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PublishedNovember 15, 2011

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