Wasp Hive!

This wasp hive was found under the roof of the shack we use to keep firewood. My dad took it down in the winter when no wasps were flying in and out of the hive. It's a ball shaped thing composed of layer and layers of thin paper like substances. We wonder if the larvae were still in there so we cut it open. Inside it revealed an amazing multi-story construction of combs made of gray wax (not so waxy as normal honey bee's wax). We saw some dead larvae and half-larva-half-wasp things but it was pretty much empty. They must have abandoned this hive in search of somewhere warmer to spend the winter.