Posted October 14, 2019
While working at Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo we found and photographed many different sizes and shapes of native Peten area wasp nests. While visiting friends at hotel Posada Caribe (on the shore of Arroyo Petexbatun, municipio of Sayaxche, Peten, Guatemala) they took us to visit other friends of theirs several kilometers hike into the hills. We noticed a wasp nest and I took some photos: Nikon D810, 200mm tele-macro lens.
As soon as we can identify the Genus species of these wasps we will update this post.
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View of entire nest, several kilometers from Arroyo Petexbatun. |
View of how nest is attached to underside of banana leaf. |
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Close-up to show the entrance to the nest. |
Another angle of view to see the entrance to the nest. |
We do not have any photographs of the inside since we do not destroy the nests; we leave them fully operational just the way we found them.
Wasps are among my favorite insects because of their biodiversity of size, nest architecture, and whether they are pollinators. For example, we hope to find more honey wasps (the ones in this photo are not honey wasps). Guatemala is a great place to study insects and arachnids.
