@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
Post #4118534
2026-07-26 16:05 UTC
Here's a photograph (not mine) of a Polistes diminula colony living inside an ornamental butterfly house. It's from Baker and Potter's excellent article titled, "Invasive paper wasp turns urban pollinator gardens into ecological traps for monarch butterfly larvae." #monarchs #butterflies #wasps https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66621-6
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@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social 2026-07-26 16:19
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks Hmm do native wasps use them too? We try to coax wasps to nest in our garden to eat the cabbage moth larvae. One year we had a big yellow jacket nest in the main garden and got such wonderful kale.