{"id":809468,"date":"2026-10-21T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809468\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:58:09","slug":"massive-wasps-nest-in-nature-reserve-office-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809468\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive wasps&#8217; nest in nature reserve office dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rothney said that when she first saw the size of the nest in June it was about the size of a paperback book. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;There was just like constant [wasps] coming and going, probably 10s, 20s in and out all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rothney started dismantling the nest on Tuesday and said that she knew in the autumn, it would be time for them to leave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When she hadn&#8217;t seen any wasps for a number of weeks she decided to explore by cutting away at the nest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that she was &#8220;amazed&#8221; to peel back a number of layers before reaching the shelves. She added that it was not until she got closer to the ring binders that she could see &#8220;hexagonal cells where the larvae would have been&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rothney said she&#8217;ll miss her office colleagues, but she knows they&#8217;ll be back and added: &#8220;I think if they do come back in here next summer they will be welcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothney said that when she first saw the size of the nest in June it was about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-809468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}