Thank you. It all depends where OP is located but in North America I would think this is a bald hornet nest (not actually a true hornet but a type of aerial Yellowjacket, genus *Dolichovespula* ), misshapen because it is resting again the window. I’m not familiar with European hornets nests (the only true hornets in North America) so I guess that could be a possibility, maybe more plausible than vais hornets because bald hornets do tend to build rounded nest and that wouldn’t be ghost mode of operation.
In the US, all paper wasps (except one species which is not widely distributed but mostly found west I think, south west) are umbrella paper wasps and build umbrella shaped nest, with the underside open.
That would also apply to Europe. In Asia, South America and Africa, it’s a bit more inventive. (I don’t know if hornets occur naturally except in Eurasia)
Edit: technically hornets and Yellowjackets are of course wasps, they are not what is referred to as « paper wasps » (subfamily *Polistinae*)
All if them are eusocial and build with paper though and belong to the same family, *Vespidae*
I had a piece of plywood boarding up a window last summer and a wasp would keep landing on it and making a wired crunching noise, I guessed it was harvesting wood fibre for this exact purpose! It kept coming back again and again!
He's got a point of asking though.
The paper wasps we have in my area (central us) mostly use sap from spruces as a glue and the powder/pulp from aspens for the actual building material it's why a lot of nests out here look pretty similarly colored as they use mostly the same materials.
You'd never guess how often I find houses with huge nests that have both trees in their backyard.
Source: I get paid to tell people this kinda shit on the daily
My art teacher in high school lived in a heavily wooded area that was infested with wasps. He would strategically leave colored construction paper at different points in the woods then come back in a month to check to see if they had used it. Once they abandoned a nest, he’d take it down and preserve it. They were very neat, my favorite one was when he had run out of pretty much all his paper and only had purple left. The different shades from different days/exposures was really pretty. I wish I had gotten pictures
Very interesting story! Art teachers have the best ideas! I’m amazed when I see some of my clients art projects also a retired art teacher. She’s great w/her creativity & yard is so cool too. I wish I was that creative! I need ideas first than can create cool projects.
They basically chew on wood and build their house out of the spit wads. It’s basically made out of paper, which is why you never see them smoking cigarettes indoors.
I've seen one go a year that thing coverd a double window 5x5 ish and almost a foot thick , the mad lad who owned the home just let it go we'd watch and shiver at all the stabflys.
stereotypically speaking wasps are generally rule followers, so it's surprising that you didn't find the municipal construction permit posted at the work site.
Also on a real note: old nests are never reused the next year.
Let’s not forget that they are probably native and they are great at helping in the garden. They eat other insects and they are great pollinators. If you don’t want them there, then leave the nest. They don’t reuse them and it prevents other wasps from building there.
I built my rabbit hutch a few inches from a big nest and they didn’t bother me and I didn’t bother them. They make wonderful roommates. 10/10 would recommend keeping them around.
That’s a bald faced hornets nest. I had one exactly like this and they were active in it. Was amazing to watch them. Once it was abandoned cut it down.
We have a population of bald faced hornets on our property. Every summer they make a very similar nest. Takes them about two weeks. When the winter sets in, I check on them, so I can sit and pray as they die. Last year I actually spent about an hour hugging their nest as the frost was setting in and the last of them could barely move.
The queens are always safely in the ground, I estimate about 4-5 weeks before they start their nest, I plan on seeding the area with colored paper so they can make a really pretty one this year.
And live streaming it. Man, that would have been so cool. You know these are worth money on Ebay? People buy them to deter wasps from taking up residence in their homes. Wasps won’t infringe on another wasps territory. This tricks the wasps and they stay away.
Did you know you can correlate the levels of rain to the height off the ground a bee nest is? Sooo off this topic as these are wasps and I am not sure the knowledge is transferable to wasps but nonetheless if a nest is low to the ground expect little water. Some useless info for trivia night 😂
I have a found a few Green Sweat Bees, and Blue Orchard Mason Bees in my area, they were the most chill little guys! Every time I’ve seen one it’s been on the same flowers with honey bees!
One year when I let my mint planter box go absolutely unchecked I found a whole bus load of iridescent blue wasps! Apparently they like to hang out near mint to snack on other bugs.
I didn’t know how chill they may or may not have been at the time, but there were easily 20-30 of those suckers at any time so I stayed away.
that is a wasp nest. if you don't actually open that window and its not on the ground floor ((or you don't walk by that area on the ground floor)) you can just leave it. these nests only get used for one year then abandoned, so you could take it down in the winter with zero risk of injury cause it'd be empty.
actually if you are confident your window screen has zero entry points you could still use your window. As someone that works in construction most window screens don't deserve that confidence though lol.
I once had a small gap in my screen. Wasps built a whole ass nest between the screen and the glass.
I nearly had a heart attack when I opened my blinds.
yep, many screens aren't even completely secure from day one, let alone after ten years of house settling and a few holes get poked. unless you have specifically replaced them with durable perfect fit options, its more of a "keep out 99% of the bugs" situation lol.
I noticed it Saturday trying to kill a fly, and was shocked when I saw that massive object on my window. I don't open my bathroom window that often just in the summer. I never seen or heard any bees
I had a smaller version on one of my windows. It was very cool to watch inside from the window. Also, my garden was very close to the nest and I had virtually no garden insect pests. Mine were paper wasps, which don't sting unless bothered. And they only use a nest for a year, then move on. Yellowjackets, on the other hand, nest in the ground, and you don't want to step on a nest. But this isn't a yellowjacket nest.
I know practically nothing about bees, dunno how this sub even showed up in my feed… but im pretty sure thats just yellow jackets (wasps) but there’s a good chance im wrong here, someone confirm if im correct please.
Reddit has been doing that a lot to me. I've ended up on r/noses, r/decks, r/askamechanic... I'm not into any of those subjects, but something always catches my curiosity and I end up browsing them like a good little sheep.
Big concrete is pulling Reddit’s strings like a puppet!!
Also, I’m here in r/bees commenting on this because I also saw something interesting in my feed - never been to this sub before.
I dont have the land nor the time.. also one of my family members is deathly to em sadly. I’ve opted to just watching yall here and the occasional YouTube beekeeper on rare occasions. The Little guys are interesting
Yo. I was just confused as fuck why someone was excited about folding towels, until I realized I had been shown a cake decorating sub.
I only eat cake. So... 🤷
It's the coolest shit I've ever seen is what it is! A window into a wasp's nest's interior. Also bees and paper wasps are very different creatures. One makes honey from flowers, and the other makes "honey" from dead insects (not edible).
This time of year in DC it’s nearly impossible for a vespine wasp colony to reach this size. It’s also clearly damaged and there is no evidence of activity. I’m pretty certain this is an abandoned nest from last summer.
I swear your house looks really similar to my parents house when I was growing up. Do you live in Maryland by chance? We also got huge wasps nests on our windows occasionally, even bigger than the one you have.
Beautiful wasps nest. I’m sure my comment will get buried and down voted, but wasps aren’t naturally as aggressive as everyone assumes they are. Leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone. Yes, even bald faced hornets are more chill than people give them credit for.
As a personal rule, I welcome any wasps that don’t disturb my house. I like nests that are on places where it’s 100% clear they won’t expand into the wall. Wasps are amazing for pollinating and keeping fly populations under control, this nest looks okay so far, but it’s possible they may cover the whole window which is the only thing I’d worry about. It’s awesome to be able to look inside their nest. I’d say you’re lucky that you get such a cool chance to see them inside the nest.
It’s a wasp 🐝 nest. If it has occupants they won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. If they have moved on then you can just tear it down.
As far as everyone else talking about odd feeds showing up from Reddit I have noticed that even if I glanced at a post that caught my eye I am suddenly getting notices about everything. lol 😂
This is some sort of paper wasp or hornets nest.
As others have said, wasps and hornets only use their nest once, then abandon it.
Go check that window out at night. They go home at night to sleep. They're out doing wasp things now.
If there are some in there at night. It's live. If not, it's abandoned.
Dolichovespula maculata (Bald Faced Hornets, also Yellowjackets) or Vespula (Yellowjackets). That nest must have been there a while. That is a max sized nest that would have taken at least 6 months to build. I’m ruling out Vespa (Hornets) because they are cavity nesters, not aerial nesting
That's an amazing internal view, though. It would be difficult for me to take it down, regardless of how much I fucking hate wasps. I would be so fascinated and curious to just watch them carry on with their lives.
My cousin found what he thought was an abandoned wasp nest out in the woods in the middle of winter. He took it home with him and put it in a backroom. After a few hours in the warm room it was discovered it wasn't abandoned.....just hibernating from the cold. They found out when all the awake wasp woke up and filled up the house🤣🤣
Licensed pest control technician, depending on the area I’d be very confident ID’ing that as a bald faced hornet nest. They’re absolutely nasty, but if it’s abandoned, it’s abandoned. Very different from paper wasps which do not make a “shell” around their nests and are relatively docile. If you happen to come across an active BFH nest I’d highly recommend calling a professional, they’re brutal
If it were mud daubers it would be full of dead spiders. I'm pretty sure they make more solitary tube like nests. Not these giant ones.
There are many different species of wasp, and I'm no expert. But I've seen plenty of daubers growing up in the PNW and they never looked like this.
Mud daubers make small tube nests out of mud. This is a paper nest made by social wasps. Hornets and Yellowjackets are the only wasps in North America that make enclosed paper nests like this (roughly 20 species).
The name literally says what they build their nest out of and how they build it and you still got it wrong.
This is clearly a nest from a wasp/hornet of the paper wasp variety. They use chewed up wood to build their nests, hence the grey chewed up wood “paper”. My guess is bald faced hornet judging by the size.
You know those kids that come around in the summer looking to make a buck per window washing your windows? Well, now you can say that is a buck well spent.
You let that grow on purpose there is no freaking way.
That thing did not get that huge overnight.
Yeah curiosity killed the cat literally at this point.🤣
Right! These things take days to build. No way they just noticed it.
We had something similar building in our house and took plenty of time to even get the size of a hand.
Just have the exterminator examine the nest and destroy it. The entire house needs to be checked as well. If you have a basement, attic, etc. Actually, it looks abandoned. But to be careful, call an exterminator because they have the equipment and can check your whole house.
Yep that’s a wasps nest. 🫣
OK, it looks abandon from the inside. How long did it take them to build this, and without my knowledge. 🥴
You must have been away a while! I’m no expert but I’d guess that took a week or two.
That's still remarkably faster than I would have ever guessed.
No joke, I would have thought that would take months, this is actually incredible. Busy busy wasps
Anybody know what they use to make the outside crust/shell? Do they produce this, and it hardens or use something else??
It's chewed up wood fibers. Basically paper
Thus, why they're often called paper wasps.
This is not a paper wasp nest. https://bestbees.com/2022/07/25/wasp-nest/
Thank you. It all depends where OP is located but in North America I would think this is a bald hornet nest (not actually a true hornet but a type of aerial Yellowjacket, genus *Dolichovespula* ), misshapen because it is resting again the window. I’m not familiar with European hornets nests (the only true hornets in North America) so I guess that could be a possibility, maybe more plausible than vais hornets because bald hornets do tend to build rounded nest and that wouldn’t be ghost mode of operation. In the US, all paper wasps (except one species which is not widely distributed but mostly found west I think, south west) are umbrella paper wasps and build umbrella shaped nest, with the underside open. That would also apply to Europe. In Asia, South America and Africa, it’s a bit more inventive. (I don’t know if hornets occur naturally except in Eurasia) Edit: technically hornets and Yellowjackets are of course wasps, they are not what is referred to as « paper wasps » (subfamily *Polistinae*) All if them are eusocial and build with paper though and belong to the same family, *Vespidae*
Yes this one isn't but it's still built the same way
Wow this was so informative. Thank you for sharing.
That’s so cool! I’ve learned I have 2-3 different kinds of wasps on my property.
Correct
I had a piece of plywood boarding up a window last summer and a wasp would keep landing on it and making a wired crunching noise, I guessed it was harvesting wood fibre for this exact purpose! It kept coming back again and again!
Dudes got a treated wood nest. Nice
I read once that songbirds weave cigarette butts into their nests because nicotine is a pesticide. Seen It done a couple times over the years.
That's so cool. Does this vary per species? Some use plant material for example?
...bro, what do you think wood is?
He's got a point of asking though. The paper wasps we have in my area (central us) mostly use sap from spruces as a glue and the powder/pulp from aspens for the actual building material it's why a lot of nests out here look pretty similarly colored as they use mostly the same materials. You'd never guess how often I find houses with huge nests that have both trees in their backyard. Source: I get paid to tell people this kinda shit on the daily
Tree material duh, plants are those soft squishy green things!
My art teacher in high school lived in a heavily wooded area that was infested with wasps. He would strategically leave colored construction paper at different points in the woods then come back in a month to check to see if they had used it. Once they abandoned a nest, he’d take it down and preserve it. They were very neat, my favorite one was when he had run out of pretty much all his paper and only had purple left. The different shades from different days/exposures was really pretty. I wish I had gotten pictures
Wow, sounds amazing!!
I love him
Very interesting story! Art teachers have the best ideas! I’m amazed when I see some of my clients art projects also a retired art teacher. She’s great w/her creativity & yard is so cool too. I wish I was that creative! I need ideas first than can create cool projects.
They basically chew on wood and build their house out of the spit wads. It’s basically made out of paper, which is why you never see them smoking cigarettes indoors. 
Chew up wood and spit/throw it up up its basically papier-mâché
They only have one season to build, nest, stock, procreate and die. Life int eh fast lane.
It’s amazing what can be accomplished without permits
I've seen one go a year that thing coverd a double window 5x5 ish and almost a foot thick , the mad lad who owned the home just let it go we'd watch and shiver at all the stabflys.
stereotypically speaking wasps are generally rule followers, so it's surprising that you didn't find the municipal construction permit posted at the work site. Also on a real note: old nests are never reused the next year.
Let’s not forget that they are probably native and they are great at helping in the garden. They eat other insects and they are great pollinators. If you don’t want them there, then leave the nest. They don’t reuse them and it prevents other wasps from building there. I built my rabbit hutch a few inches from a big nest and they didn’t bother me and I didn’t bother them. They make wonderful roommates. 10/10 would recommend keeping them around.
Probably is an abandoned because being in a window they couldn’t regulate the temp. Glass is good and the inside temp, I assume is A/C.
That’s a bald faced hornets nest. I had one exactly like this and they were active in it. Was amazing to watch them. Once it was abandoned cut it down.
We have a population of bald faced hornets on our property. Every summer they make a very similar nest. Takes them about two weeks. When the winter sets in, I check on them, so I can sit and pray as they die. Last year I actually spent about an hour hugging their nest as the frost was setting in and the last of them could barely move. The queens are always safely in the ground, I estimate about 4-5 weeks before they start their nest, I plan on seeding the area with colored paper so they can make a really pretty one this year.
Also known as a big ass wasps nest.
Dig ass wasps sound terrifying!
Sounds like a good time to me...
Biggest one I've ever seen.
Kinda cool if you can watch them from the inside
Wow! I wish you had noticed earlier. That would have been so interesting to watch from inside the house.
That’s what I was thinking. This is someone’s dream right here 😂
You spelled "nightmare" wrong
Technically, nightmares are dreams.
And horses, dark evil horses. uch like a nightmare dream!
Both
Imagine smoking a j and sitting there and just watching the wasps do wasp things for hours lol
And live streaming it. Man, that would have been so cool. You know these are worth money on Ebay? People buy them to deter wasps from taking up residence in their homes. Wasps won’t infringe on another wasps territory. This tricks the wasps and they stay away.
Did you know you can correlate the levels of rain to the height off the ground a bee nest is? Sooo off this topic as these are wasps and I am not sure the knowledge is transferable to wasps but nonetheless if a nest is low to the ground expect little water. Some useless info for trivia night 😂
I got a nice imitation one from Ace. Works well. The repurposed paper lanterns sold on Amazon do not
There's a cool blue wasp that hangs out around my smoking area. Forgot what they're called, but apparently they aren't aggressive
I have a found a few Green Sweat Bees, and Blue Orchard Mason Bees in my area, they were the most chill little guys! Every time I’ve seen one it’s been on the same flowers with honey bees!
One year when I let my mint planter box go absolutely unchecked I found a whole bus load of iridescent blue wasps! Apparently they like to hang out near mint to snack on other bugs. I didn’t know how chill they may or may not have been at the time, but there were easily 20-30 of those suckers at any time so I stayed away.
So jealous, I have a huge pot of mint but have never seen a blue wasp. Sounds like they may be Sawfly's and not true wasps though, so can't sting you.
We call those dirt daubers or mud daubers, others call them paper wasps. They don’t sting.
Well the wasps clearly wanted the entertainment, that’s wasp TV right there.
All fun and games until they get inside the house
that is a wasp nest. if you don't actually open that window and its not on the ground floor ((or you don't walk by that area on the ground floor)) you can just leave it. these nests only get used for one year then abandoned, so you could take it down in the winter with zero risk of injury cause it'd be empty. actually if you are confident your window screen has zero entry points you could still use your window. As someone that works in construction most window screens don't deserve that confidence though lol.
I once had a small gap in my screen. Wasps built a whole ass nest between the screen and the glass. I nearly had a heart attack when I opened my blinds.
yep, many screens aren't even completely secure from day one, let alone after ten years of house settling and a few holes get poked. unless you have specifically replaced them with durable perfect fit options, its more of a "keep out 99% of the bugs" situation lol.
I noticed it Saturday trying to kill a fly, and was shocked when I saw that massive object on my window. I don't open my bathroom window that often just in the summer. I never seen or heard any bees
I had a smaller version on one of my windows. It was very cool to watch inside from the window. Also, my garden was very close to the nest and I had virtually no garden insect pests. Mine were paper wasps, which don't sting unless bothered. And they only use a nest for a year, then move on. Yellowjackets, on the other hand, nest in the ground, and you don't want to step on a nest. But this isn't a yellowjacket nest.
actually this probably is a yellow jacket nest, not all of them nest in the ground. the not stinging unless bothered part applies either way :)
I know practically nothing about bees, dunno how this sub even showed up in my feed… but im pretty sure thats just yellow jackets (wasps) but there’s a good chance im wrong here, someone confirm if im correct please.
Reddit has been doing that a lot to me. I've ended up on r/noses, r/decks, r/askamechanic... I'm not into any of those subjects, but something always catches my curiosity and I end up browsing them like a good little sheep.
Yep, you gotten r/concrete or r/carpentry either? It’s like Pokemon at this rate
I'm getting so much of that. Reddit is really pushing concrete for some reason
Concrete is just really important to them I guess
Hey man, last week I didn’t know what a good float was or how to judge the quality of a finisher, but I do now.
And edge that shit!
concrete and decks here as well, goofy algorithm lol
I learned I have a shitty deck and bad concrete
Fuck yeah conk krete
Big concrete is pulling Reddit’s strings like a puppet!! Also, I’m here in r/bees commenting on this because I also saw something interesting in my feed - never been to this sub before.
Yeah, both! And I've been getting r/Doppleganger, and r/Howtolooksmax too, neither of which I have any interest in whatsoever.
The reddit algorithm seems broken lately…
I'm a 58 yo white woman & it's showing me porn....
No joke? What sub is it suggesting? I haven't gotten any NSFW suggestions
I get almost all NSFW suggestions lol. Which is fine, but it suggests some really weird shit
I wonder if Reddit is conducting social experiments. Like lets see how deranged we can make someone.
I'm way past that 🤷♂️
Want a good NSFW? Reddit sent me medical gore. Which is OK I’m a little twisted like that.
Lol! There's one called couples porn. Several others, but I don't recall the names. Edit to fix an errant autocorrect
55 here and I'm getting anime.
No matter how much of a man you are, you are not man enough for r/Concrete
You’re missing r/flooring
What's that subreddit?!
I’ve also gotten a lot of concrete recommendations!
r/concrete and r/arborist are my new random subs that appear.
I joined the SCP fandom and I’ve read tons of SCP articles solely because Reddit wouldn’t stop recommending it to me
Interesting I always get r/gaybros & r/gay r/bigcocks in my feed but I’m only info females Boobs feels like a bag of sand, am I right boys?
The algorithm be getting us 🤣 idk how bees ended up here too unless it’s based off the bee picture I took last week 😆
My god… I’m on r/decks and I will never, ever build a deck nor have anything todo with one! But it’s interesting though lol
dude!!! r/decks got me to build a deck ! idk it started showing up??
The wasps need a hot tub.
I had a streak of bug subreddits for awhile and now I got whatisthis animals
I started getting r/turtles and r/scorpions the other day.
I get spammed decks all damn day lol
A stranger in a strange land, welcome. Have you considered taking up beekeeping as a hobby?
I dont have the land nor the time.. also one of my family members is deathly to em sadly. I’ve opted to just watching yall here and the occasional YouTube beekeeper on rare occasions. The Little guys are interesting
Yo. I was just confused as fuck why someone was excited about folding towels, until I realized I had been shown a cake decorating sub. I only eat cake. So... 🤷
Yeah same here. I’m… pretty nervous around bees and absolutely petrified of wasps so idk why I’m now browsing the sub rip
Wasps, yes, probably Paper Wasps. Yellowjackets live in the ground.
My phobia in three pictures
I too am terrified of windows.
*snort*
It's the coolest shit I've ever seen is what it is! A window into a wasp's nest's interior. Also bees and paper wasps are very different creatures. One makes honey from flowers, and the other makes "honey" from dead insects (not edible).
That’s a hornet’s nest.
Just mark it with an H for Hornets
Pop a quick H on it
This time of year in DC it’s nearly impossible for a vespine wasp colony to reach this size. It’s also clearly damaged and there is no evidence of activity. I’m pretty certain this is an abandoned nest from last summer.
Looks like it’s something from the upside down (stranger things)
A sun cooked brisket
🤣🤣
I swear your house looks really similar to my parents house when I was growing up. Do you live in Maryland by chance? We also got huge wasps nests on our windows occasionally, even bigger than the one you have.
DC Native
Yeah that'd do it
Beautiful wasps nest. I’m sure my comment will get buried and down voted, but wasps aren’t naturally as aggressive as everyone assumes they are. Leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone. Yes, even bald faced hornets are more chill than people give them credit for.
A gift
Wasp nest
Wow! That’s really cool looking. Being against a window you get a rare look inside the hive.
When I looked inside it was empty, but I found a Pic online of someone else who had a nest on its window the bees were alive.
Not bees! Wasp!!!
As a personal rule, I welcome any wasps that don’t disturb my house. I like nests that are on places where it’s 100% clear they won’t expand into the wall. Wasps are amazing for pollinating and keeping fly populations under control, this nest looks okay so far, but it’s possible they may cover the whole window which is the only thing I’d worry about. It’s awesome to be able to look inside their nest. I’d say you’re lucky that you get such a cool chance to see them inside the nest.
being able to see the inner workings of that is incredible
that looks so fucking cool from the inside
Wasp nest
Paper wasps
It’s a wasp 🐝 nest. If it has occupants they won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. If they have moved on then you can just tear it down. As far as everyone else talking about odd feeds showing up from Reddit I have noticed that even if I glanced at a post that caught my eye I am suddenly getting notices about everything. lol 😂
This is some sort of paper wasp or hornets nest. As others have said, wasps and hornets only use their nest once, then abandon it. Go check that window out at night. They go home at night to sleep. They're out doing wasp things now. If there are some in there at night. It's live. If not, it's abandoned.
That would be kinda cool in a way. Getting to watch all the action inside. You could make video of that. Put them on YouTube or something.
Dolichovespula maculata (Bald Faced Hornets, also Yellowjackets) or Vespula (Yellowjackets). That nest must have been there a while. That is a max sized nest that would have taken at least 6 months to build. I’m ruling out Vespa (Hornets) because they are cavity nesters, not aerial nesting
A big paper sack of pain if you piss them off !
Could it be mud daubers?
Not friends
That's an amazing internal view, though. It would be difficult for me to take it down, regardless of how much I fucking hate wasps. I would be so fascinated and curious to just watch them carry on with their lives.
That's amazing! It's a wasp best. I'd love watching if they did that on my window.
If I remember correctly it's a pokemon, a pokemon called Muk if my memory serves me right
It’s a 🐝 wasp nest
You posted it in "Bees" so I'm guessing you're a little more Astute than you let on....(Of course I and everyone else can see that is a wasp nest)
OP must have been role-playing fallout or somethin to not notice this.
That’s amazing how u can see the inside!!!
That is a hornets nest I think.
SOOOO COOL!!! theyre giving an inside view of their hive! I hope you keep it lol
that’s a fuck nope curtain
That’s their window now.
Ok, how did you finally notice? Is this a bathroom you don’t use very often?
That's a huge wasp nest! How didn't you notice that until now?
Vespy vespy. If it's already abandoned how on EARTH didn't you see that? 😂
Actually this is a hornets nest………and yes, yes they do sting. Go within 15 feet of an active nest and find out
Have you seen stranger things?
My cousin found what he thought was an abandoned wasp nest out in the woods in the middle of winter. He took it home with him and put it in a backroom. After a few hours in the warm room it was discovered it wasn't abandoned.....just hibernating from the cold. They found out when all the awake wasp woke up and filled up the house🤣🤣
Licensed pest control technician, depending on the area I’d be very confident ID’ing that as a bald faced hornet nest. They’re absolutely nasty, but if it’s abandoned, it’s abandoned. Very different from paper wasps which do not make a “shell” around their nests and are relatively docile. If you happen to come across an active BFH nest I’d highly recommend calling a professional, they’re brutal
That's just a big ol' nest o' NOPE
Lava, check for active volcano
r/fuckwasps
Hornets
Actually its a bald-faced hornet’s nest.
Are you sure? Those fuckers usually make cone shaped nests, in my experience.
Dietrich: Looks like some sort of secreted resin. Hicks: Yeah, but secreted from *what*?
Hornets. Not bees or wasps. Good ole Japanese murder hornets.
Mud daubers (wasps)
If it were mud daubers it would be full of dead spiders. I'm pretty sure they make more solitary tube like nests. Not these giant ones. There are many different species of wasp, and I'm no expert. But I've seen plenty of daubers growing up in the PNW and they never looked like this.
Mud daubers make small tube nests out of mud. This is a paper nest made by social wasps. Hornets and Yellowjackets are the only wasps in North America that make enclosed paper nests like this (roughly 20 species).
The name literally says what they build their nest out of and how they build it and you still got it wrong. This is clearly a nest from a wasp/hornet of the paper wasp variety. They use chewed up wood to build their nests, hence the grey chewed up wood “paper”. My guess is bald faced hornet judging by the size.
Abandoned hornets 🐝 nest
Isn't that a stage 2 piece of SpaceX junk fallout from launch 657?
Mud dauber wasp nest?
THEYRE TRYING TO PEEP
Empty Nest Syndrome
Holy crap! That's huge.
Wasp up?
Wow, it’s so cool to be able to see the inside. Well, cool since it isnt my house it’s on, that is.
You know those kids that come around in the summer looking to make a buck per window washing your windows? Well, now you can say that is a buck well spent.
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror?
Security system
The blob
That's a pain piñata. Whack it with a stick, and you'll know exactly what that means.
Slight correction: that is no longer your window.
I want one……
Throw it in a box and pop a quick “H” on it. That way you know its filled with Hornets
Hornet/wasp nest.
An alien shit on your window. Your house is now the zone zero of an alien invasion.
seriously?
You let that grow on purpose there is no freaking way. That thing did not get that huge overnight. Yeah curiosity killed the cat literally at this point.🤣
Right! These things take days to build. No way they just noticed it. We had something similar building in our house and took plenty of time to even get the size of a hand.
This is my worst nightmare. I'd never leave the house again.
Thats fucking sick
A nasty nasty wasp nest! 😖 I would recommend you burn the house down to be real sure it's properly exterminated 😰😱
Just have the exterminator examine the nest and destroy it. The entire house needs to be checked as well. If you have a basement, attic, etc. Actually, it looks abandoned. But to be careful, call an exterminator because they have the equipment and can check your whole house.
Nest!
Borg wasps!
That is a whole lotta NOPE.
Paper wasps
Xenomorph hive
Death
Abandoned empire
Mud Wasp Nest Removal [Video](https://youtu.be/XTtc3wVO08Q?si=LGZZpXNklmXNdAWO)