Giant Wasp Nests
Posted on August 22, 2006 Comments (2)
Giant nests perplex experts (site broke link so I removed it):
The largest nest Ray has inspected this year filled the interior of a weathered 1955 Chevrolet parked in a rural Elmore County barn. That nest was about the size of a tire in the rear floor seven weeks ago, but quickly spread to fill the entire vehicle, the property owner, Harry Coker, said. Four satellite nests around it have gotten into the eaves of the barn, about 300 yards from his home.
Super-size that nest!, July 21st:
The super-sized nests may contain as many as 100,000. One mammoth nest discovered in South Carolina contained roughly a quarter-million workers and as many as 100 queens.
Ray fears some of these nests may not even reach maximum size until late July or August.
One other finding has intrigued Ray and other researchers: the presence of satellite nests in close proximity to the large nest.
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October 28th, 2006 @ 10:25 am
“A biology professor in northern British Columbia has spotted a clover field crawling with spiders. Brian Thair of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George said he saw a silky, white web stretching 60 acres across a field.”
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