Stickfigure Gardening: A Garden Journal of backyard ecology.: 2010

Here are some wasp houses I put up. They are just those decorative fake bird houses you get in flower arrangements. When I lived in the country I would put up inverted coffee cans for them to live in and had renters every year. The ones shown here are nice ornamentals put no wasps have moved in as of yet. It's going on three years now, glad I don't pay taxes. I suppose they don't like the neighborhood because just below them are the Croakers......a frog family (also a vacant house but the wasps don't know that, ha)

The wasps dine on cabbage moths, as do the sparrows. They are constantly grooming the plants and carrying away the squirmy prize to a place other than the houses I set up for them.