A nature reserve manager has been working from home after a group of wasps took over her office and built a 1m (3.2ft) nest around a bookshelf of ring binders.
Eilish Rothney, a nature reserve manager for the Trinity Broads at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said after weeks of being out conducting surveys, she returned to her office on 11 June in Ormesby St Michael and saw wasps “buzzing round the corner”.
She found a nest about “a quarter of the size it is now” and said she worked for more than two hours before calling it a day.
“It was just fascinating to watch the wasps coming and going and building up the lovely layers of colour — it looks like exotic paper,” she said.
