Charlotte LR Payne
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Kushihara hebo (wasp) festival!

11/13/2013

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On November 3rd, about 1000 people gathered in Kushihara to celebrate the wasp harvest...
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The photo on the left shows the winners of the contest, first place with a 5.04kg nest: A nice example of how a good relationship can result in a winning wasp nest...:)
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The whole festival was brilliant, but my favourite part was definitely helping to take the nests from the hives, one by one (130 hives in total!)
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After the festival we spent a few hours taking wasp larvae out of the nests and cooking them...
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Also I should add that my wasp nest, which had finished at least a week before the festival, was by far the lightest...apparently this was due to the poisonous snake that I lovingly killed and fed to them just a month before :)

(Next time i try feeding a poisonous snake to my wasps, I'll be sure to clean out the insides properly. And there's yet another sentence I never imagined I'd be writing)
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