ずっと孤独な女王蜂

In June, a queen of the dark-waist paper wasp (Polistes jokahamae), who had picked a wrong nesting site previously, had not managed to get a single worker wasp to emerge yet, so she got desperate and worked even harder. However, parasitic moths - the light-purple striped snout moths (Hypsopygia postflava) breed faster. When the paper wasp larvae pupated, they were eaten off one after another by the moth larvae. The queen wasp, who would reach the end of her life in July, no longer had time to rebuild the dying nest.