The Midnight Run Project 365

A decrepit and abandoned wasp nest just outside my apartment’s front door. It’s been there for maybe one and a half years.

It’s survived that long, despite being made of paper, because it’s under the overhang of the railing of my patio (if you can call it that).

In the interest of full disclosure, I made it abandoned. I tried to let them live in peace, but soon one wasp turned into many, and every time I walked by they would stop whatever they were doing and look at me. I was afraid to even get close. Fearing the eventual swarm of angry, stinging wasps, one night I sprayed the nest with wasp killer. That killed the adults. In the next couple of days, the larva followed. I found them dead on the ground. My guess is without the adults to regulate the temperature by beating their wings on the larva, they got too hot and crawled out.

I felt very bad.

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