What is it?

Today Mrs. Farrelly brought a very different item into school today. It was brought into each class where after looking closely at the item they made 2 guesses as to what it was. 

What do you think it is? 

Here are some of the guesses made by the children in the school: 

• bumblebee hive
  
• cardboard
• uncooked brownie
• tree bark
• birds' nest
• wasps' nest/hive
• ant nest
• shell
• asian hornets' nest
• crushed shells

It is a...

If you look closely at the next picture you will see the honeycomb pattern on the inside of the hive. This helped us and we found out it is a wasps nest/hive. Mrs. Farrelly let us know that once the wasps left the nest, they removed it from the roof of her garage.

 

Here is what we found out about wasps nests:

A honeycomb pattern is visible inside many wasp nests, with hexagonal cells for wasp larvae. Wasps construct these nests from a paper-like material created by mixing chewed wood pulp with their saliva. The hexagonal shape of the cells is an efficient design that maximizes stability and storage space for the developing larvae.