Little Monsters - Part 36: Black Back Paper Wasp with VIDEO!

I had a somewhat intimidating visitor this weekend! I've featured the Black Back Paper Wasp before in this series. Indeed the top image is from that post which I encourage you to check out for more photos of the wasp!

The new pictures are below!
We can clearly see where this wasp gets it's name!

Paper wasps build small cone shaped hives out of natural fibres, so what is it doing on the deck? It's stealing parts of my home to build its own!

Here it is starting to scrape a strip of fibre off the sun bleached edge of a board, I guess these fibres are easier to gather and make for better building material:

A few seconds later we can see the pale yellow of unbleached wood revealed by the wasps thievery!

Furthermore I was able to obtain a short video clip!

I'll definitely try to add more videos to my next posts.

I used the YouTube editor to make this short clip (sorry that's all the footage I had!) and it was relatively easy to do! There's even free to use music that you can add. I haven't tried out the cutting/pasting or effects tools yet, though it did seem fairly intuitive. I was most surprised with the image stabilization, one tick box and the video was much much smoother! Give it a try! The processing and rendering for the video all takes place in the cloud so there's no need for a beefy video card!

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Also, if you like macro photography, check out some of the earlier posts in this series.

Little Monsters - Part I: Wolf Spiders
Little Monsters - Part II: Golden Orb Weaver
Little Monsters - Part III: Lynx Spiders!
Little Monsters - Part IV: Decorator Orb Weaver
Little Monsters - Part V: Black Back Paper Wasp
Little Monsters - Part VI: Dragonfly
Little Monsters - Part VII: Indian Fritallary
Little Monsters - Part VIII: Giant Japanese Hornet
Little Monsters - Part IX: Praying Mantis!
Little Monsters - Part X: Harlequin Ladybird!
Little Monsters - Part XI: Dragons!
Little Monsters - Part XII: Snails!
Little Monsters - Part XIII: Evil Weevils!
Little Monsters - Part XIV: Fantastic Phasmids!
Little Monsters - Part XV: To Bee or not to Bee?
Little Monsters - Part 16: Jumping Spiders!
Little Monsters - Part 17: Hawkmoth Caterpillars and Hawkmoths
Little Monsters - Part 18: Evil Doppelgangers - The Ant Mimic Spider
Little Monsters - Part 19: Hummingbird Hawkmoth!
Little Monsters - Part 20: Loud and Proud the Cicada!
Little Monsters - Part 21: Great Green Caterpillars!
Little Monsters - Part 22: Vespa mandarina japonica
Little Monsters - Part 23: Little Black Ants
Little Monsters - Part 24: Cranes and Robbers
Little Monsters - Part 25: Hidden in the Grass
Little Monsters - Part 26: Ammophila, Alien is real!
Little Monsters - Part 27: Bush Cricket
Little Monsters - Part 28: Butterflies, flying bits of colour!
Little Monsters - Part 29: Hermit Crabs!
Little Monsters - Part 30: Redback Spider
Little Monsters - Part 31: Harlequin Ladybird Larva
Little Monsters - Part 32: Small Cabbage White
Little Monsters - Part 33: Jumping Spiders II Evarcha albaria
Little Monsters - Part 33 II: More Jumping Spiders!
Little Monsters - Part 34: Crab Spider!
Little Monsters - Part 35: Longhorn Beetle
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