A lustrous, soft white metal, silver is one of the elements that make up the Earth. Silver is found in nature as an elemental metal in its metallic form and combined with other elements such as sulfide, chloride and nitrate. Pure silver has a bright metallic white-gray color; silver nitrate and silver chloride are powdery white in color, while silver sulfide and silver oxide are dark gray to black.
The native Polistes aurifer. (golden paper wasp) frequently. overwinters in attics of homes. The queens emerge during the. first warm days of spring (as. early as March and April), select. a nest site, and build a small. paper nest in which they lay.
Types of Wasps. Wasps are broadly categorized as social wasps, solitary wasps and parasitic wasps. The general commonality between these three groups of wasps is they all are predators or parasites of other insects and spiders or are opportunistic, omnivorous feeders known as scavengers. Wasp nests are constructed either above or below ground.