Within a short distance of the 25th St. entrance to Green-Wood, there are five of these big Bald-faced Hornet nests.
A pair in neighboring trees. 
And yesterday, I found some of the paper of one of them strewn about.
Now that’s what I call wrapping paper!
Snow Hat
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[…] critters build a nest made of wood that looks rather like the Bald-faced Wasp’s (Dolichovespula maculata), but usually inside something, like a tree trunk, rather than suspended […]
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[…] seemingly never completed.Paper wasp nest, from the same tree, if I’m not mistaken, as last year. The queen, the only member of the hive to overwinter, didn’t stray far. […]
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