What is the life cycle of a wasp?
A. In the spring, the queen leaves her hibernation site and seeks a suitable place to build her nest. She constructs a golf ball size construction from wood pulp and then a small number of eggs are laid and tended by the queen until they hatch to produce the larvae, which she also feeds and tends. When fully grown the larvae pupate and sterile female workers emerge. These take over the job of enlarging the nest and foraging for food and insects for subsequent eggs laid by the queen. Wasp’s nests may be found in roof spaces, wall cavities and air grates of buildings, hanging from trees, as well as underground. A normal wasps nest can contain from 3,000 to 5,000 individuals depending on it’s size, by late summer. Towards the end of summer fertile males and young queens emerge from the nest to mate. The young queens will then fly away and select a suitable site to hibernate over the winter. In the late summer before the onset of the colder weather the remaining males and worker wasps will
