The most common wasp in Britain is the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris). The queen will hibernate through the winter usually in trees, or in the loft.

They then emerge from hibernation in spring and start building their nests in underground holes, hollow trees or in the wall and roof cavities of buildings. The nest is likely to be cone-shaped and made from shavings of wood chewed into a greyish or yellowish paper-like material.

By late summer, as the colony grows, a nest may reach the size of a football or even larger. It usually consists of several horizontal tiers of ‘paper’ combs, in which the larvae or grubs are reared, protected and hidden inside several outer layers of ‘paper’, with an entrance hole at the bottom.

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