Paper Wasp Life Cycle at Life

Paper Wasp Life Cycle. Below is the generalized paper wasp life cycle. As the days begin to warm up, the queen wasps come out from hibernation where they have spent the winter months in a deep sleep.

A solitary queen emerges from hibernation in the early spring and builds a small nest using chewed wood pulp. They are quickly replaced with new workers as the cycle continues. She will find somewhere safe where she can hibernate until the temperatures start to rise again.

Family Pompilidae Spider Wasps

Ironically, paper wasp larvae are often the main providers of food for the queen, who wags her abdomen across the nest when she is hungry to “beg” the larvae to secrete nutritious salvia. Paper wasps are social insects with annual nests. Cells remain open until developing larvae pupate. Paper wasps have a yearly cycle of their life.