Where Do Wasps Go in the Winter Time?

Typically, most species of wasps do not live long in the winter. In the winter, their food source diminishes and they are no longer able to survive. They enter torpor, a state of inactivity. In torpor, they sleep and remain warm. In the spring, the queen of the wasp colony lays eggs.

The queen of the wasp colony chooses a place to build a nest. It can be in a small hole in a tree or in a secluded crevice inside a shed or loft. The queen then constructs a nest from wood pulp and saliva. The nest is built around the queen and food.

In the winter, the queen is dormant and unable to fly. She sleeps in a warm, protected area. She will not move until the weather warms up. She lays eggs in the nest, and when the eggs hatch, she forms a new colony.

After the winter, the queen is on the lookout for a new, warm place to build a new nest. She will then lay eggs in the new nest. She will then produce workers for the colony.

A new queen may emerge from the nest in the late summer or early fall. It is not uncommon for several queens to get together and start a new nest. These queens are fertile, and they can lay up to 250,000 eggs in a single season. These queens are larger than worker wasps. They also can live up to a year.