This second wasp nest was in an inconvenient spot, so I removed it. I had thought it abandoned, but there was a single larva inside, dangling from a thread. The larva was alive, but the nest had not been provisioned with food.
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| View from inside the nest |
I wasn't sure what to do. I couldn't stick the nest back on the wall and the the mud was too crumbly to glue to a glass microscope slide, which would have let me watch the wasp's development inside the nest. So all I could think of doing was placing the larvae in another wasp nest. I'm not sure if that was a good idea or not. Perhaps there's a way of making an artificial nest to observe development?
