Photographed in New Bedford, Massachusetts, by Harvard University, Dept. of Environmental Health and Safety entomologist/environmental biologist, Dr. Gary Alpert, this image depicted a newly begun, initial Bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata, nest. Bald-faced hornets are common in both wooded and urban areas in New England. A carton nest, which is more or less a nest within a nest, as seen in this image, a queen starts a new nest each spring after the weather warms up in late April or May.Created: 2006
Photographed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Harvard University campus, by Harvard University, Dept. of Environmental Health and Safety entomologist/environmental biologist, Dr. Gary Alpert, this image depicted a mature Bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata, nest, which had been built by its colony up under the cornice of a museum building, abutting the capital of a Corinthian column. Bald-faced hornets are common in both wooded and urban areas in New England. Queens start a new nest each spring after the weather warms up in late April or May.Created: 2006
Photographed in Concord, Massachusetts, May, 2006 by Harvard University, Dept. of Environmental Health and Safety entomologist/environmental biologist, Dr. Gary Alpert, this image depicted an anterior view of a Bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata. Though named as a hornet, this wasp is not a true hornet from the genus, Vespa, but is more closely related to the yellow jackets, and is a member of of the genus Dolicovespula.Created: 2006
