2023 August 33 evening

   Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Bald-faced Hornet at the Save-On-Foods parking lot at Fort and Foul Bay Road, August 22.  Someone had cut a branch off holding their nest.

Dolichovespula maculata (Hym.: Vespidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

And Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a European Paper Wasp from McIntyre reservoir on the same day.  Seems like our contributors are living dangerously.

Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy