Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Paper wasps are a plague to southerners with porches and old-fashioned trim wooden trim work, especially which needs painting, on their houses. These social insects (ie defenders of their colonies) build relatively small nests that look like a suspended, open, upside down umbrella and usually contain from 50 to 75 individual cells in which the young develop. The adults, which mostly dine on nectar, collect and digest