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Monday, August 21, 2006

Wasp


Wasp, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Our prayerwheel, made of six coffee cans arrayed around a horizontal bicycle wheel anemometer-fashion had to change. The coffee cans were a perfect environment for the local wasp population to colonize and set up housekeeping. It was becoming too popular.

Only one of the nests was active. Today I bagged the can it was built into, removed it from the wheel, and set it in the freezer to cool off the pair of wasps that tended the nest. I'm afraid that the cooling was more permanent that I had hoped. This guy's out for the big sleep.

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