ex cathedra: The wasps are gone

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The wasps are gone

Sept 29

Nov 20

A chilly and rainy couple of November days. The nest finally seemed abandoned, so I took down the lantern and removed the impressive little mass of more than a hundred empty hexagonally shaped paper chambers...only to discover that there were about a half dozen critters hiding up behind it, against the cold, I guess. They wandered slowly off on foot...on paw? on what do you call a wasp's podiatric thingy? According to my research, only the queen will survive the winter and the others will naturally end their short lives with the colder weather. But they lasted far longer than I thought they would. As St Paul said in Hebrews: We have not here a lasting city.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Naturally occurring hexagonal lattices are ocularly awesome.

By nice coinkydink, the frontpage picture of bing.com today shows a grouping of basalt columns, which are similar to what you show in the linked pics.

--Nathan; 5:50 PM, November 20, 2010

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