Paper Balls

You will be assimilated… this Borg of a Dolichovespula aerial yellowjacket nest has absorbed one of the leaves of the magnolia it was built in.

Here’s a nest way up a White Oak.

Another magnolia-based nest, this one not too far up and rather small.

One each in Horsechestnuts that weren’t too far apart.

These are probably Bald-faced Hornet/Dolichovespula maculata nests, rather than Common Aerial/Dolichovespula arenaria, since the Baldies are so much more common here.

Here’s one which has fallen, as most do during the fall and winter as the weather beats them off their branch foundations. I already have a collection of wasp paper (waspaper?) for next year’s insects walks.