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To our untrained eyes we would simply call them yellowjackets.
What is the reason for social insects manipulating the corpses of dead
nestmates? Or is it simply happenstance?
Thanks Fred
Andy and Lelia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Wasp question
> On 10/2/2010 9:02 PM, andy dean wrote:
>> That is all very fascinating....but nobody seems to be able to answer
>> the more intriguing
>> ( to us ) question....why did the two wasps fly off with dead ones?
>
> * what kind of wasps were these? Social Insects often manipulate the
> position of the corpses of their dead nestmates, so speculation would
> depend on what kind of wasps these were, and the spatial relationship to
> nests of that species.
>
> fred.
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>>
>>>
>>> *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
>>> <mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
>>> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *andy dean
>>> *Sent:* September-25-10 12:57 PM
>>> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>>> *Subject:* [NatureNS] Wasp question
>>> _Attention of any budding or professional entyologists in the
>>> group._
>>> One morning recently my wife and I discovered about 50 dead wasps
>>> on the garage floor , just inside the door, and attributed it to a
>>> natural 'end-of-season' phenomenon....does that seem correct?
>>> More bemusing was the fact that whilst we sat with the garage door
>>> open, drinking our morning coffee, we twice witnessed a wasp fly
>>> in and after examining a corpse lift it and fly off with
>>> it.....anybody know what that was all about?
>>> It was mind-boggling to realize that the weight of the corpse in
>>> relation to the live wasp would have been the equivalent of me
>>> lifting my wife bodily off the ground and flying off with her
>>> ......a sobering thought !
>>> Andy and Lelia Dean
>>> 86 Baden Powell Drive
>>> Kentville, N.S.
>>> (902) 678-6243
>>
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