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Hornets Nest

Photo by 19pmeany
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Field Notes

Description:

Hornets Nest

Habitat:

Hornets nests are built by the queen hornet. The eggs are in the nests. The queen build the nest so they remain on the outside. Tiers are added to the nest by worker hornets thereafter. Nests frequently are found hanging in trees and on the sides of buildings within various environments including urban areas, farmlands, parklands, brownfield sites, woodlands and forests.

Notes:

This hornets nest is in a tree right outside of my house. We have decided to leave it there so as not to interfere with nature. Hornets fly in and out of the nest. They have been doing this all summer long. I looked it up and found out that since the nest is so high in the tree (about 10 feet up) it really is not dangerous. Even hurricane forces winds would not knock it out of the tree. So we will just wait for nature to run it's course and all the hornets will die off when it gets cold.

Species ID Suggestions

Bald-faced Hornet Nest

Dolichovespula maculata

Reference Link
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Comments (3)
maplemoth662
A beautiful photo....a beautiful Hornets Nest....a beautiful design, on this Hornets Nest....
Ava T-B
Hello 19pmeany and Welcome to the Project Noah community! We hope you like the website as much as we do. There are many aspects to the site and community. The best way to get started is to read the FAQs athttp://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you can find all the tips, advice and "rules" of Project Noah. You, like the rest of the community, will be able to suggest IDs for species that you know (but that have not been identified), and make useful or encouraging comments on other users' spottings (and they on yours). There are also "missions" you can join and add spottings to. See http://www.projectnoah.org/missions Note that most missions are "local". Be sure not to add a spotting to a mission that was outside of mission boundaries or theme. Each mission has a map you may consult showing its range. We also maintain a blog archivehttp://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we have posted previous articles from specialists from different geographical areas and categories of spottings, as well as wildlife "adventures.” So enjoy yourself, share, communicate, learn. See you around! P.S. Nice notes!
Ava T-B
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378

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Nests, hives, bowers, webs & other animal architecture
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2017

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