#tw wasp nest

[1000fingers]

PSA to people drawing the wasps nest in jane prentiss’s attic: ITS NOT A HANGING NEST ITS IN THE CORNER!

[rebellum]

The wasp nest that's been in this tree for a few years fell down

[clairebearsparkles]

Pre and post worms Jane Prentiss. Someone requested bug au her so I had to whip up a normal version to pull from lol

[notjustbees]

"And now, for something completely different."🍄

[your-local-wine-aunt]

i made a thing i’m pretty proud of

(text written is from the transcript of ep. 32 hive)

[rattyexplores]

Two Paper Wasp Nests

Unidentified, genus Polistes

22/03/23 - NSW

[the-wasp-nest-in-ur-attic]

you live and die by my whims and my whims alone.

reference under the cut!

[tj-crochets]

Hey how many indoor wasps is a concerning number of indoor wasps, and how do you get rid of them? I am not anti-wasp and am fine with them living in my yard, but this is the second wasp in my house in like two weeks and I am prone to severe allergies. Like, I don't know that I'm allergic to wasps, but I would not be surprised if I was, given my long list of other allergies? Also one of the wasps was a dead wasp on the floor right next to my bed and I found it after almost stepping on it barefoot. I would like to not do that again. I am not concerned about being stung if I know the wasp is there, but I am not always the most observant of people lol

[wackpedion]

mutuals talkng about their taxidermied mice and deer skulls making me wish i took that ripped off bird wing i found today

[xiphosuras]

Hornets I drew at my job

[wrenn0002]

Bugs I found in the past few days :3

In order

Tubeworm moth

A lacewing (I think? Correct me if I’m wrong)

Long jawed orbweaver spider

A vacant wasp nest

A pitiful little waxed sphinx moth that I tried to save

Grasshopper

A baby borrow orbweaver (last two pics are the same spider)

[crochetedrambutan]

This is my first Etsy product! I’m selling these crocheted wasps nests. I know firsthand that wasps tend to be pesky and downright scary at times. So why not have a wasp nest to ward off the territorial boys!

[apothecaryofthedamned]

“It is not a god. Or if it is then it is a dead god, decayed and clammy corpse-flesh brimming with writhing graveworms.”

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

loooots of wasps nests at the sanctuary; a little nerve-wracking but very interesting to see the little grubs at different stages of development in the nests!

[hylianengineer]

*asks about job*

Anon you are my favorite.

Okay, so, I'm a laboratory and field technician in a soil and water science lab.

I love my job so goddamn much. I get to work with fancy machines like the gas chromatograph and spectrometer! (The spectrometer is actually really boring but shhh.) I get to go outside and watch birds while I collect water samples! I am getting paid for this! I get to learn data processing and engineering and wilderness safety precautions and how to explain complex science to people whose careers are Not This.

Also, research labs are chaos and I delight in it. Okay maybe not ALL research labs, I'm informed the chemistry department does not look like this. BUT this is an environmental science lab. It is full is bizarre, deeply nerdy, deeply passionate people. Who do things like eat baked potatoes like apples, improvise experimental setups with mason jars and duct tape, and nickname every instrument either a human name or a Pixar reference. I love them so much I have no words.

Crazy and fun things I've done for this job:

Freezer jenga followed by freezer tetris (had to take all the things out of a the freezer, put them in coolers to keep them cold, defrost the freezer, and put them back in except organized this time. I was delighted by this for no logical reason, my boss thought I was nuts).

Okay you know in scifi movies where they have some weird mystery substance and they put it in a box with gloves attatched so they can work with it without actually touching it? I've done that! Not because of hazardous substances, we just needed to put stuff in jars without exposing it to oxygen. But still! It was cool!

Shopping trip to get food for like half a dozen people for three days (I had weird dreams about being overwhelmed with tortilla chips afterwards, this doesn't sound that crazy but I promise you it felt like it).

Taped plastic tubing to 200+ funels until the boxes we were storing them in overflowed and there was no longer floorspace to walk (AFTER cutting the plastic tubing into 200+ equally sized pieces and stuffing it with ion exchange resin, which is like evil microplastic sand. Between all those things, this took WEEKS. It got really boring).

Dissolved like 10kg of KCl (KCl my behated, its very harmless but hell to get off glassware) in water to make 80 LITERS OF KCL SOLUTION (that's over 20 pounds of solid KCl and over 20 gallons of solution! My coworker and I were sort of laughing hysterically over this entire process because come on! 80 liters! For reference most lab protocols need like, a liter or less of whatever solution.) Fun fact about solid KCl, it tends to stick together into a giant brick. We were chiseling at it with scoops, spoons, whatever was on hand (i really wanted to attack it with a screwdriver but it would introduce dirt into the chemicals so i couldn't) and eventually we got so frustrated we went outside and dropped the thing off a second floor balcony. After wrapping it in like 3 layers of plastic bags because we knew at least one bag was gonna break. This did not actually help much but it was very cathartic.

There was a project once where we had to take sealed mason jars and replace all the air in them with nitrogen gas. Repeatedly. For over a hundred jars. My PI (principle invesitgator, means the scientist in charge of a project and usually a lab) is good at building things, so of course he assembled this manifold thing so we could pump nitrogen through a dozen jars at once. Which was great, except it involved two dozen needles, half of them attatched to flexible plastic tubing so they'd kinda bounce around when you pulled them out of the jars. It looked like a very stabby centipede-slash-octopus monster. Impressively, we only stabbed ourselves a couple times each with this thing (and changed the needles of course, we are aware of the risks of transmitting blood diseases).

Actually one of the craziest things about this job in my opinion is how many fucking needles we work with. You see, we study atmospheric gases. And to do that, we need to transfer gases between sealed containers, which means needles and septa (the rubber things they put on vials so you can poke needles through them). So. Many. Needles. Did you know you can only use a needle four times before it gets too dull? It's extremely noticeable as you're using them - not as they get dull, but when you discard an old needle and get out a new one it is a huge difference. I don't know why I find this so fascinating, but working with needles is honestly so fun. I feel like a mad scientist or something. Also, for the first couple months I kept poking myself on accident so I was just walking around with these pinpricks and papercut looking wounds. It felt a bit like a badge of honor, somehow, like a rite of passage for working in the gas lab. Another thing about needles, if you get scratched with one horizontally instead of stabbed, they look like papercuts. It's weird. Also weird is how good you get after a while at not stabbing yourself.

I think I like working with needles because they're something that used to make me nervous. Not horribly, but I have more than typical anxiety and I get nervous about everything. And yet I am now totally chill about needles, because I work with them all the time. It's... freeing I guess. Maybe empowering, even. I am scared of so many things, but I am not scared of this. Ditto large quantities of acid, once you've had to work with dozens of liters of the stuff you stop being scared of it - this was for the same project as the KCl and yes it was equally ridiculous. Dilute acid, thankfully, but to make dilute acid you have to mix the really concentrated stuff with water. It does not come as dilute acid, that would be too easy. So we spent multiple days in a row diluting acid and soaking things in it, there were plastic boxes full of the stuff on every available counter space with handmade warning labels, it was A Thing™️.

Anyways, I'm a person who's scared of everything, except weird stuff like hydrochloric acid, needles, and wasps. I can blame all three of those things on this job, which I love dearly. I love to learn new things, pretend I'm in a scifi movie, be surrounded by crazy people (affectionate), and apparently overcome my numerous fears. You absolutely did not sign up for this big puddle of feelings, anon, but thank you for inspiring it nevertheless.

[scenicphoenix]

If you ever have a reason to attract wasps, like a garden or something, they uuhh... they like making nests in bird houses

On a side note, have you ever felt fear looking at a small cactus shaped house that you were currently holding?