This is a picture archive of many of the wasp nest boxes made so far. There are a lot of them, so they’ve been loosely arranged into categories according to type. Click on a picture to see more in that category.

These are all functional boxes. They are constructed with a heavy cardboard, the kind used by bookbinders for hardback books. Often there are several layers laminated together which makes a very sturdy box. The most common covering for them is wasp nest but there are other materials used as well.  Different barks – white and yellow birch, metasequoia, the inner bark from fallen poplar logs, the peeling barks of beauty bush and arbutus – these are some of the most commonly used. Whatever looks promising and comes to hand while out walking is tried. All materials are gathered from fallen logs or from the forest floor, along cut lines in the city, or from garden refuse. Several different fall leaves are used, in particular weeping willow, hosta and sumach. Also the soft bracts of the dove tree, Davidia Involucrata, and the filigree leaves from magnolia and maple trees, found in the spring after the snow melts. And others. Small metal findings are picked up along the city streets. Small beach stones or glass or parts of branches are sometimes added as handles. The insides of the boxes are either lined with handmade papers of all sorts, or are covered with wasp nest.