A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a wasps' nest that has all of McBride Street buzzing.
Giant wasps nest with huge wasps sitting very low in the tree. ... Wasps have white tips on their bodies.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a wasps' nest that has all of McBride Street buzzing.
Giant wasps nest with huge wasps sitting very low in the tree. ... Wasps have white tips on their bodies.
Mary Ellen photographed one of several two-inch-long cicada killer wasps flitting around Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday afternoon. "They were quite impressive buzzing around," she says, adding they're relatively harmless - except to cicadas - they can sting, but usually won't unless they feel threatened.
The Massachusetts Wasp Watchers project is an effort to detect and do something about, no, not wasps, but emerald ash borers, a bright-green bug that eats the leaves of ash trees - and deposits eggs that turn into bark-eating larvae. And it's looking for volunteers.