Paper Wasps: Your New BFFs
...he rest of the colony disperses and dies. The fertile queens mate one last time in the fall, and then find some little nook in which to hibernate over the winter (this is amazing to me and I haven’t found any details about it yet.) In the early spring she emerges and builds a tiny nest, like maybe six cells, to generate a first generation of workers to help her out. These workers are female, as with the bees, and as soon as they hatch they get to...
