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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dromo" data-source="post: 1646033" data-attributes="member: 62850"><p>Not sure where to post this but can anyone help solve a mystery?  In our orchard (S. France, Rhône Valley) there is a wasp's nest in a hole in the ground.  A few days ago, we found that the nest had been attacked and dug up.  Since then the wasps have been engaged in a strategic airlift, moving their grubs to a new site.  Does anyone have any ideas as to what animal did this?  Until the attack, the hole just a small one (possibly an old mole hole) surrounded by grass.  But as you can see from the pictures, it is now quite a size, about 25 centimetres in diameter and depth.  On one side of the hole, there is the spoil produced by the digger and if you look carefully you can see a fragment of the nest itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>