{"id":1152,"date":"2013-02-09T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2013-02-10T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:02:57","slug":"wasps-nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/wasps-nesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasps Nesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130210-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1131\" alt=\"20130210 048\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130210-048-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130210-048-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130210-048.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The wasps are very active at the moment as they feed and seal their larvae into individual chambers to pupate. \u00a0There are a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozanimals.com\/Insect\/European-Paper-Wasp\/Polistes\/dominulus.html\" target=\"_blank\">European Paper Wasp Nests<\/a> all round the property, I spotted this one under a star picket cap on the bottom fence and found another under the lip of the horse trough. \u00a0The former will stay, the latter will go, with the help of some mortein fly spray, first thing in the morning before they become active. \u00a0 There are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/science\/articles\/2011\/10\/04\/3327168.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> no native paper wasps<\/a> in the SouthWest of WA, the first European wasp was found in Fremantle in 1977, so they have been very effective colonisers. \u00a0 They eat caterpillars, so I should be happy to see them in the vege patch, but I am not as they still scare me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wasps are very active at the moment as they feed and seal their larvae into individual chambers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130210-048.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}