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Dead Wasps In A Circle In Attic
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Last autumn I found a very neat circle of dead wasps in a dry attic bedroom. Have no recollection of a nest of wasps around the house. Think it was Autumn, but not too sure. Afraid I swept it up and did not search for a queen under the pile. Would there have been one, being protected? Why were they there?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Neat circle sounds odd. As wildwood says, sounds more like something feeding on them. I would have thought there would be other signs of them, like one of their nests for instance. Are you sure it was wasps, it could have been those other things, whose name escapes me for the moment, that have striped bodies as camouflage so that birds will think they are wasps and not eat them.
Not likely a spider... fact is wasps (at least here in the U.S.) inject venom into spiders, disabling them. They, then put the somnabulant spider into a cell within their nest, later laying an egg in the spiders abdomen which hatches into a larvae and eats the spider from the inside out.
My suspicion is that above where you found the neatly arranged wasps you may find the remains of a wasps nest or at least the area where it may have been attached to the underside of the roof sheating, out of which dead wasps were routinely cleaned out and simply fell into the pattern. Perhaps some other answer may be found, but it's unlikely that spiders killed them...
My suspicion is that above where you found the neatly arranged wasps you may find the remains of a wasps nest or at least the area where it may have been attached to the underside of the roof sheating, out of which dead wasps were routinely cleaned out and simply fell into the pattern. Perhaps some other answer may be found, but it's unlikely that spiders killed them...
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