In May a (later identified as) bald faced hornet queen started to build a nest under my backdoor-light, soon it grew and the first worker hornets emerged. By Mid-August the nest looked abandoned and when I took it down by end of September, there were a lot of unhatched queens and drones still inside - very sad...
a very good description of the bald facet hornet's life-cycle I found here.
Bald faced hornets are absolutely peaceful companions - I could touch(!) their nest and they didn't mind! And very useful garden-helpers too - the aphid population was about zero...
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