Why is that wasp eating my deck furniture?
Wasps gather wood fibre from dead wood and mix it with saliva to use as a nest-building material. The wood may come from trees or plant stems, but also from a human’s outdoor furniture.
A European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula) chews wood of a weathered deck chair and will use it to build its nest.
All of your pictures are excellent .Please keep them coming.
And not only the pic’s, the info: useful, fascinating. I like the binomial nomenclature, especially the species: dominula. A sweet little dominatrix ?