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European Paper Wasp(vespa)

Polistes dominula

Description:

wasp nest? in a rusty iron structure http://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&...

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18 Comments

Stanislav Greš
Stanislav Greš 10 years ago

i feel pain from this photo :)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

I saw the spotting! Awesome! Dandelions are more pretty than they get credit for!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

yeah,i'am going to assign it to life and mathematics mission
by the way,i made the letter( about local-global missions)to explane my points of vue about the matter to the board,i feel the void of the seed mission:-)
look at this spotting i load yesterday
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/944...

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

wow what a great geometric ,concentric effect!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

ID corrected,thanks
@thanks Haiden
@thanks Ignacio

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

yes the geomectric concentric efect his very abstract:-)
like i said in other coment i'am fowlling the colony and today i'll upload a new spot ,now they are only a few and i think one is the queen.
thanks people for all the coments

Stian Waaler
Stian Waaler 12 years ago

Wow, that's some awesome pictures =)

AnjaliAnantharam
AnjaliAnantharam 12 years ago

Makes a nice abstract photo...

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

after a sucessfull negociations,the wasp process continue ,i put another spot it look's like the first but there are small changes in the wasp aspect they are dieing,more dark colours

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

thanks SmallWonders,you to have superb spots in your list,congratulations very nice colours and exotic wildlife

Small Wonders
Small Wonders 12 years ago

Great spot!!

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

What a shot! Wonderful, all of them!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

:-) now i'am in process of negociation whith my wife for the" non extermination" of that colony,they are in the iron structure,of my backyard laundry dry,a place were she goes every day,until now.no problem,but i'am afraid if they atack someone then it's the end,until that i'll make a photografic report of there life:-)and yes they look succulent:-)and beautiful,thanks people for the wonderfoul coments

Darwin26
Darwin26 12 years ago

if one didn't know better the pix would be succulent to the core but uhhh soon as i realize what they really are, i'm perplexed at the beauty and the sting.

Thank you,

craigwilliams
craigwilliams 12 years ago

Superb!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 12 years ago

Beautiful spotting!

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 12 years ago

awesome!!!!!!!!

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Great shot!

São Victor, Portugal

Spotted on Oct 31, 2011
Submitted on Oct 31, 2011

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