Thursday, July 10, 2008

Not the inner chamber of the ear

Interior of a hornet nest.Rather a hornet or bees nest (abandoned, thankfully!), in the rafters above one of my neighbor's kitchen, discovered during renovations...

Hornet nest....the size of a 30 gallon trashcan.

Thank you, Linda Jaymes, for those great photographs!

4 comments:

Wayfaring Wanderer said...

Goodness me that give me the heebie jeebies......

I could practically live in one myself that's 30 gallon, okay, not really........but that ain't your average hornets nest!

Dan Allen said...

Heebie jeebies, yes. The whole idea of that nest over your kitchen -- and by the way, it turned out to be a bald faced hornets nest, a particularly dangerous species -- is the stuff of nightmares. And yet look how beautiful and intricately designed on the inside.

Nancy said...

OH, MY GOSH!!!!! I never saw one that big!!! Amazing what the bee/hornet family can do, isn't it?

Halcyon said...

That is SCARY! Glad no one was hurt while they were living there. :s