A delicate, bell-shaped nest

This is July, a newly-hatched brood of young wasps goes out from the small nest their mother made, to gather wood-shavings to enlarge their home.

Several kinds of wasps make their nests of wood-paper.

The common wasp nests as a rule, in a bank where roots of shrubs or trees have pushed  earth aside to make cavities.

The wood-wasps male a delicate, bell-shaped nest hanging from a branch.

The wasps in the picture are shaving wood-flakes from the post, and while they work they get the scent of the meadow-sweet in full bloom.