I have watched that behavior many times, with Paper wasps.
I do enjoy watching them collect wood fibers from my patio furniture (look before you sit!)
But don’t enjoy discovering that they are using it to construct a basketball-sized dwelling in the eaves, hanging right above my door (look before you grab the door handle!)
Sadly, there is no wasp emoji (only a bee) or I might have inserted a swarm of them throughout…
Whilst Tui are a common species locally, I am used to them being territorial/agressive. So you usually dont get more than a couple close togather. I have seen some aggregates of them before in videos, but never myself/not locally. But this morning a large number of them were in the Kowhai outside my place. Which is one of the only things flowering locally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boF8ce-9Hmk
I have never seen a group like this before.
Whenever you find an ant nursery beneath a rock, they always panic and try to relocate fast.
In July, I saw my first Eastern Cicada-Killer Wasp, and today I was lucky enough to see it in action, hauling a cicada away!
There were six western yellowjacket wasps on this apple.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/399114017
This apple had five then six.
That’s one of my least favorite observed behaviors 
i spotted this yellowjacket-mimic moth and got a good observation out of it. when he noticed me looking at him, he started vibrating his wings and lifting his abdomen (or flying in place?). it really added to the deception
the females are a slightly better mimic since her antennae are narrow and look more waspy
This was my first time getting bit by a bug (other than a mosquito) and it was one that I never would have guessed!
The Doctor and I played hooky to spend some time at the Arsenal Refuge this week, and I got my first-ever observation and photos of young White-tailed Deer jousting.
They weren’t as serious about as they will be in a couple of weeks, but they were having an enthusiastic practice run. Look out world; the velvet is off and they’re getting ready to ruuumblllle!
I’m back again with more wasps counting.
This one had ten.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=im-a_cat-purrson&verifiable=any
I saw this dragonfly hovering over the path and I watched it to see if it would land. It flew into the grass and began moving erratically. I was able to get my camera on it to see that it had encountered a spider. 
Despite being much bigger than the spider, the dragonfly did not win that fight.
I saw my fav Oxyrhachis treehopper, but it was moulting!!!
Over the last couple of weeks, I have submitted a few obs of Green Lynx Spiders guarding egg sacs in a large bush. I did not know that they would stay by the sacs for so long. Today, I went to get a pic of one of the spiders and noticed that they are still in the same spot but that there are now numerous babies that have hatched that the spider seems to be guarding, something else I did not know Green Lynx Spiders did.
Watched cormorants, terns, and egrets feed on a school of fish yesterday and shot some slow motion footage.
