I have no idea what species it is, iNaturalist suggested the Eutanyacra genus however.

Texas, USA.

Best picture i can get of the wasps from my previous post. You can clearly see the banded one to the left. One swarm seems to be coming from my neighbors tree and the other from somewhere beyond the other side of my house but they were having a ranger on my porch lamp as shown in the previous video

Found a massive nest growing on our home. Height is around 2-3 feet.

So I found a wasp in my laundry room. The poor thing is missing both her wings, but otherwise seems okay. I have her in a breathable glass jar at the moment and just gave her some honey. The internet seems to indicate that an average wasp lives for around a month. I don't like the idea of releasing her where she'll be a sitting duck. How can I keep her comfortable and happy until her time comes? Or will she honestly be okay outside without her wings?

Hi guys,

I'm after some advice!

I had noticed some wasps buzzing around the edge of my roof at the beginning of October, but thought they would get killed off by the cold weather soon, so didn't worry about it. It's been strangely warm this autumn, so they were active until a week or so ago.

I've just been up to my attic to check the heating pipes, and found the below!

Anyone have any suggestions how I can deal with it?

https://preview.redd.it/exexefm7uv0e1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cb0ae9c1a6732a0f410f4a323a72feca9da2598

Got stung by a wasp

Very unlucky. The wasp was hiding in my sandals as I got out of the shower (it got there within the 10mins of my shower) Of course it got scared of my big foot entering my sandal and it stung me. What an incredible amount of pain hahaha. It was a shocking sharp pain, I cried and was shaking. Im pretty sure it got me twice because she was latched on to my foot and wouldn’t let go until I kicked her with my sandal and I see two red dots. Anyways this happened today at 2:30pm and it is now almost 4am and gotten no sleep. Pain is better than the initial stung but Im still in pain. That throbbing sharp pain and it travels through my leg because ofc she got the nerve next to my big toe. Anyways. Should I still be in this much pain? Or should I worry? The only time I feel fine is when Im numb from the ice. Ive taken ibuprofen and didn’t really do much.

Hi all,

I got stung by a paper wasp through my leggings in mid July and it still red and hasn’t healed much at all. It doesn’t hurt but I’m assuming it has just scarred. Is it normal to take this long to heal?

would it be possible to keep a parasitic wasp as pet since I'm pretty sure they do sting but they don't form colonies so it would be able to manage their population and does have to be a specific host i know there are parasitic wasp for tarantulas, roaches, and butterfly larva but does it have to be the specific subspecies or can it be some species from another country and do the larva just need to eat the corpse left behind from the host or do they need to be fed every day or so.

I recently discovered a large paper nest in a tree in my front yard, probably about the size of 1.5/ 2 basketballs. It was very surprising to me because it seemingly was in plain sight (not a deciduous tree so no changes to the foliage) all summer and nobody ever noticed it, and I am frequently mowing right under this tree, which could have disturbed the nest. This lead me to believe that the nest likely had been abandoned for some time.

However, upon removal the nest still had a number of living larvae. Not a huge amount, but I counted about a dozen that were still moving inside their combs, alongside far more dead and blackened larvae. There were also no workers in the nest, or signs of them flying around over the past few days since I discovered it.

So maybe this nest was recently abandoned? Anyone know how long larvae can survive without food?