European Wasp (1/6)

Hymenoptera: Vespidae

Vespula Germanica  

While making dinner I discovered a European Wasp sitting on my work surface. Not the best place to sit while I'm wielding a sharp knife. I carefully put a glass over it until I'd finished dinner.

Any creature that joins me in my place has to be prepared for a photography session. After the wasp had got tired of investigating the inside of the upside-down glass (European Wasps can climb up glass I discovered), I slowly removed the glass and took photos while the wasp explored its new-found freedom on the table top.

Happily, it didn't fly and I got to take a couple of photos. Its exploration included climbing up the outside of the glass it had previously been inside. Glutton for punishment, that wasp.

I captured it in the glass again, since it seemed to like it so much, and released it outside.