WASPS DESCRIPTION Wasps make up an enormously diverse array of insects, with some 30,000 identified species. We are most familiar with those that are wrapped in bright warning colours—ones that buzz angrily about in groups and threaten us with painful stings. But most wasps are actually solitary, non-stinging varieties. And all do far more good for humans by controlling pest insect populations than harm. They come in every colour imaginable, from the familiar yellow to brown, metallic blue, and bright red. All wasps build nests, whereas bees secrete a waxy substance to construct their nests, wasps create their familiar papery abodes from wood fibres scraped with their hard mandibles and chewed into a pulp.

PROBLEMS proteins necessary for their survival and for the production of eggs in females. They normally prefer human hosts to fulfil their blood requirements. During daylight hours, both adults and nymphs hide in dark and dry places, such as in cracks and crevices commonly found in furniture, walls, ceilings or floorboards, underneath seams of wallpaper and between mattresses and beds. At night, adults and nymphs crawl from these resting places to feed on sleeping people, after which they return to their resting sites to digest the blood meal LIFE CYCLE The life cycle of a wasp is solely dependent on the role of the wasp in its colony. Male wasp survive up to six weeks, fertile female up to a year, whereas a worker wasp or sterile female survives up to twenty-two days or less. In early part of spring, when the weather is dry, the queen wasp will wake up from her hibernation and begin scouting for a new location to build a nest. This location can be a tree, a disused burrow or even eaves of a roof. The main criteria are that predators should be able to reach it and there should be space for it to grow. This attachment is then connected to hexagonal cells which form the nursery. The eggs are laid inside the nursery and are protect with the help of cellulose. Like this more cells are gradually added to form the wasp’s nest.

The life cycle of a wasp is solely dependent on the role of the wasp in its colony. Male wasp survived up to six weeks, fertile female up to a year, whereas a worker wasp or sterile female survives up to twenty-two days or less. In early part of spring, when the weather is dry, the queen wasp will wake up from her hibernation and begin scouting for a new location to build a nest. This location can be a tree, a disused burrow or even eaves of a roof. The main criteria are that predators should be able to reach it and there should be space for it to grow. Queen wasp scrapes wood from trees, garden furniture etc. with its jaws. The wood scrapings are mixed with saliva and end up forming cellulose. A petiole, or stalk, which acts like an attachment is first made. This attachment is then connected to hexagonal cells which form the nursery. The eggs are laid inside the nursery and are protect with the help of cellulose. Like this more cells are gradually added to form the wasp’s nest.