Common Wasp, Vespula Vulgaris Scavaging Old Pear Fruit Stock Image

The Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris is a social wasp that can form nests as small as a dozen or so in the roof of your shed to colonies boasting 10 000+ in burrows or other suitable nesting sites. The nests are built of a paper like material scavenged from dead and dying wood which they mix with saliva to form a pulp, this is applied thinly to create the paper texture. Seen here scavenging on old