A Paper Wasp chew to make its nest? I was putting the car hitch on the RV preparing for a trip this week to Oklahoma for a week of dog shows and I noticed that a wasp keep landing on an old wooden skid along the fence.

It was quite busy and focused on something so it caught my attention and I noticed that it was gnawing on the wood to gather up fine shavings which it would carry off for its nest building. Because it kept coming back to the same spot, I brought out the camera to take a picture of it in action.

Of course I knew that they had to build their nests from something however this was the first time that I seen one in progress.