Nesting wasps

Here we see a pleasing assortment of wasps constructing new colonies with naught but hexagons and saliva.

In the second image: "A young paper wasp queen (Polistes dominula) is founding a new colony. The nest was made with wood fibers and saliva, and the eggs were laid and fertilized with sperm kept from last year. Now the wasp is feeding and taking care of her heirs. In some weeks, new females will emerge and the colony will expand. The timespan between the older and more recent photos is about one month."

The first image has been generously released into the public domain by one Brian Fish. The second (composite) image is by by Wikimedia user Alvesgaspar, and is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.