‘BZZZZ’ said the one last wasp that lived after the elimination.
Today we, that is Johanna, Rose, Monte and Simon were lucky enough to watch Mr. Allan dig up a wasps nest which the wasps had already been killed the week before so it was all safe for us to dig up.
So the dig began, a quarter way of digging it up we found a toothbrush, at that point we didn’t know how important it would be later through the task.
The entrance of the nest was about the size of our fists.
We followed the entrance and paused so Johanna could take heaps of pictures from different angles and at each one of us looking into the hole making interested faces!
Mr. Allan put the spade down once more, we heard a big CRACK.
Then we saw it ‘GOLD’ we all thought getting ready to jump and grab it,but no,it was the amazing fortress of hexagons! WOW!
“We need to clean it” said Mr. Allan “ We won’t be able to transport it with all the dirt on it.”
“The toothbrush!” We shouted
Rose got it from underneath the pile of rubbish.
Simon and Monte started cleaning it carefully, Rose and I stood watching and taking photos of the nest it was surprisingly and a nice golden colour.
Once it was clean (or as clean as a wasps nest can get) Mr.Allan picked up the shovel and tried to lift up the wasps nest and put it in a big plastic box.
We carried it into room 7 to let our class mates to take a good look at the nest.
Under many oooohhhh’s and aaaaahhhh’s we put it on the mat, there were also many eeeeewwww’s when they saw the dead larvae lying still on the bottom of the box.
“ I wonder how a wasp can make such perfect hexagons.” Mr. McA
wondered.
‘BZZZZ’ said the one last wasp that lived after the elimination.
Rose and Johanna
