Paper wasp queen laying an egg

Polistes gallicus queen laying an egg in a newly started cell at the periphery of her nest.
Over the course of colony development, a feedback loop can be seen where the queen sees empty new cells and responds by filling them with an egg, and the workers see the cells being occupied by eggs and respond by building new ones. Excluding external factors such as food availability and temperature, the rate at which the nest grows and thus its final size ultimately depends on how readily the queen occupies empty cells.

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Update: as of late August 2021 this colony is thriving, I free-ranged them a few weeks after this video and they are now free. The queen is still alive, although very old, and the old nest had to be abandoned. They built a new one a few centimeters away from the original, where they're now raising new queens and males. There are approx. 30 workers. I shall be releasing a video soon

[@Bugattraction]

That’s one of the most amazing things I’ve seen.

[@joshgilligan5466]

So good to get a video of this!

[@CollectAppleDevices]

I love wasps a lot great video btw

[@CcatVideogames]

Wasps are over hated, they only sting when they feel threatened just like bees, pretty cool to find someone that keeps them, hope to be able to try this one day myself

[@ElectricShark]

Informative channel!

[@hugofolpp1753]

Amazin. That’s so cool managed to film this.
Question: if I have my wasps coloured paper to build their nest, do u think their nest would end up colourful?

[@waspjournals41]

Yes they would, provided it's a type of paper they like to collect

[@hugofolpp1753]

@@waspjournals41 amazing. Time to make a pride flag wasp nest, lmao

[@waspsfriend8577]

Rare footage

[@SEEK-d-Truth]

How do I know whos the queen?

[@focuslegendlight1025]

Hey, how is it possible to contact you ?

[@waspjournals41]

Hi, I'm Jesse Mendelsohn on Facebook, I own the FB group "The wasp-keeping academy", the FB page "wasp journals", and my email is [e-mail]