Hi, Tweets,

Some years ago while living in Edmonds, some wasps built a nest in the same
location as Ruth Taylor's, under the eaves above our living room windows. We
watched for weeks, fascinated, as it grew from tennis ball size to about
fourteen inch beach ball size before it collapsed to the flower bed beneath,
breaking into three pieces. My husband shoveled them onto a flat wheel
barrow, moved it about ten feet away near some bushes and built a temporary
open wire fence around it. While wasps flew up and all around us they never
seemed threatening.

And would you believe they adapted at once to the situation, went on feeding
larvae until they matured, while the "carpenter wasps" tried to repair the
part that still stuck to the house -- to no avail. I can't remember how long
all this took before suddenly, one day they were gone! Luckily, we lived in
a riparian habitat not frequented by crows.

Amy McQuade
Mercer Island
McBrdwchr at aol.com