Category: Insects

Large Cabbage White Butterfly

This Large Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris brassicae) hibernated in our small, over winter not occupied, chicken coup. While preparing this coup for some new meat chickens this beautiful butterfly came flying out.

Our new meat chickens

Wasp nest being build

Wasp queen is starting a new colony

My husband found this starting of a wasp nest at a far end of our property. The wasp queen has built this nest and is taking care of the first members of her new colony. By the heat we are having at the moment she is cooling the nest by vibrating her wings changing position on her nest constantly. She attached the nest to a small hazelnut tree. It is interesting to see how it is in a right angle to the tree trunk. The way the wasp nest is attached is so thin one would think it will break off at any moment, but it doesn’t.

My husband made a short video of this queen wasp combined with a video of an ant drinking and 2 ladybirds “having fun”.