I, for one, am not someone who will be easily – or ever – convinced that wasps are in any way lovable.
That said, they can built some pretty-looking nests if you give them some colorful tools!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B63sJ8CAGD0/
University of Florence biology major Mattia Menchetti came up with the idea: he would slowly fed a captive colony of paper wasps different colors of paper over time.
The result? Nests that look more like trippy kaleidoscopes than the houses of terror that they actually are.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD_2SDmvnBp/
It’s not the first time scientists have realized that the insect world can get more colorful than nature intended – sometimes, with no intentional human intervention at all. In 2012, a group of French beekeepers discovered that their bees were creating green and blue honey. The culprit?
Bits of M&M shells they had found at a nearby waste processing plant.
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1147991845986656257
Honestly more depressing than magical, if you ask me. Which no one did, I realize.
These pictures still 100% give me the heebies, even if they’re technically pretty.
What about you? Are you a wasp fan now?
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf1BkWalJg7/
If so, please explain yourself or submit for voluntary psychological hold.
It’s for your own good, I swear.
Check out Mattia’s Twitter or Facebook for more pics like these, or to see what amazing thing this young scientists comes up with next!
