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[brewmaster15]

Heres something for you to try and figure out. I took a few macro photography pics today out in my yard. I then cropped the photos so you are seeing a natural pattern....First photo with flash... remainder of Photos were taken without flash at a high ISO.

What do you think these photos are of?

-al

[Disgirl]

Layers in a piece of tree bark? Or part of a mushroom?
Barb

[Chad Hughes]

It's kind of late in the year for wasps, but is it a section of a wasp hive? One of the pictures looks like there is a bit of the paper "peeling" away from the rest. Other than that, what Barb said. LOL!

[brewmaster15]

Wow,
Chad I am impressed! right on the money. Looks like I will have to get creative here if I am going to stump you guys.
I have a bald face hornet nest in the yard that got torn into by a woodpecker..... This was a piece of it.

I found it on the ground below the nest and was really amazed by the pattern...The photos don't do it justice. From a biology point of view that paper is amazingly complex...each row and color represents a different wood source that was harvested, and turned to pulp and used to make paper.... Over the course of the summer I saw the hornets chewing away on my garden fence, wood shed and old pile of pine trees... theres probably 20-30 or more sources they used... yeah I know ..I am weird...but things like that blow me away...so simple a creature and so complex a structure..

So anyone else want to post some pics for guessing session?


-al

[ifixoldhouses]

Looks like a rock to me.

[Disgirl]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb

[Darrell Ward]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb

LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

[Eddie]

LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

LOL, thats crazy Darrell...funny though.

Chad, you are pretty good! Dang, I was well stumped..thought it was something man made due to all the layers and particle almost looked like fiberglass or paper.

Eddie

[brewmaster15]

Darrell,

That brings back memories... lol I did that too one winter. I did not know that the adults all died in the winter...but the eggs/pupae stay dormant until spring.... It took 2 weeks for the hornets to hatch....

-al

[Chad Hughes]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb

Thanks Barb! The last picture gave it away for me. You can see a layer of the "paper" peeling away. That's the only way I knew I had a **** at guessing correctly.

LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

YIKES!

LOL, thats crazy Darrell...funny though.

Chad, you are pretty good! Dang, I was well stumped..thought it was something man made due to all the layers and particle almost looked like fiberglass or paper.

Eddie

Thanks Eddie, those nests are just like paper. Imagine heavy tissue paper all wrapped around in a ball with little rooms inside. Pretty impressive I must say! These little guys are quite the engineers.

Darrell,

That brings back memories... lol I did that too one winter. I did not know that the adults all died in the winter...but the eggs/pupae stay dormant until spring.... It took 2 weeks for the hornets to hatch....

-al

DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic!

[brewmaster15]

DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic!

yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic.. swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.

al

[Chad Hughes]

yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic.. swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.

al

Oh my god Al! For heavens sake, BE CAREFUL! Those nests are about impossible to see until they are after you in numbers!

[target]

yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic.. swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.

al

Glad you know to have the antihystamine as well as the epipen.

[Darren's Discus]

Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !



cheers

[Eddie]

Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !



cheers

ROTFLMAO!!!