the young queen looks for a good, safe place to make a nest.

It has to be dry and have lots of space. She finds an old mouse

Nest As the colony grows, the wasps make their nest bigger.

Some nests can contain many thousands of wasps. A big nest

is safe from most dangers, but a summer flood or a careless Then, in late summer, the workers build new, large cells.

These are for new queens and male wasps (called drones).

As winter arrives, the old nest falls to pieces and the workers

and the old queen, who started the nest, die. But the new queens