{"id":3574,"date":"2016-04-07T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:00:23","slug":"when-given-colored-construction-paper-wasps-build-rainbow-colored-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/when-given-colored-construction-paper-wasps-build-rainbow-colored-nests\/","title":{"rendered":"When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/04\/rainbow-wasps\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wasp-6.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s unnerving to discover a wasp\u2019s nest dangling outside your house, but perhaps it would be a tad less so with the help of biology student <a href=\"http:\/\/notulazoologica.blogspot.it\/2014\/11\/quando-vespa-e-arte.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mattia Menchetti<\/a> who cleverly realized he could give colored construction paper to a colony of European paper wasps. By gradually providing different paper shades, the wasps turned their homes into a functional rainbow of different colors. This isn\u2019t the first time scientists have encountered insects producing colorful materials with the aid of artificial coloring. In 2012, residue from an M&amp;M plant caused local bees to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-bees-idUSBRE8930MQ20121005\" target=\"_blank\">blue and green honey<\/a>, and a similar\u2014though admittedly more tragic\u2014incident involving bees and the dye used in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/03\/how-bees-revealed-a-pot-farm-beneath-the-maraschino-cherries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maraschino cherries<\/a> occured recently in New York. You can see more of Menchetti\u2019s experiment on his <a href=\"http:\/\/notulazoologica.blogspot.it\/2014\/11\/quando-vespa-e-arte.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booooooom.com\/2016\/04\/04\/mattia-menchetti-gives-wasps-coloured-paper-to-create-rainbow-nests\/#more-78906\" target=\"_blank\">Booooooom<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/04\/rainbow-wasps\/\">When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unnerving to discover a wasp\u2019s nest dangling outside your house, but perhaps it would be a tad less so with the help of biology student Mattia Menchetti who cleverly realized he could give colored construction paper to a colony of European paper wasps. By gradually providing different paper shades, the wasps turned their homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}