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turns out!

In the course of today it must have happened: our Queen has her first two workers. As so often in social Hymenoptera are the first-born workers significantly less than later-born. In ants called this first offspring of a young queen also Pygmies, whether these so-called Wasp be, I just do not know.

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Still alone

Our Wasp is still the only adult animal in the nest. But some cells are already for some time zugedeckelt. These sealed cells pose the dolls, so the animals have their larval stages already passed and now make their metamorphosis - the transformation of the nondescript, gray, thick, immobile, helpless larva of the black and yellow, barbed workhorse. It should not be long until the first workers to their queen will go to hand.


After the cold, rainy first half of June, it has become hot. Our Queen has again they cool their brood. As already mentioned, they do with their wings fanning air in the cells. But it does something else, like on the two new photos from 18 June is recognized: it platzert drops of water in each cell. The evaporation of water cools the cells. For the same reason we sweat people at the wasps must do so in the care relationship.

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nesting

raw material for the paper nest is wood fibers. The wasps may be torn off with their mandibles fibers of thin branches, and chew it and mix with saliva to a pulp.


On the animal is not our view, but a Gallic (Or French) field wasp, Polistes dominulus . I caught a few days ago (May 12) when she bit off material from an old branch just a few yards from our Queen. The species P. dominulus is easy to spot: it is the only native wasp also with the upper side orange-colored probe flagella.

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finally sunny

sun! As life comes in the wasp and as the photographer says that he finally has decent light. So let's make even a passport photo. Smile please ...


And so we have the proof that we are dealing with a heath elicit factual field wasp, Polistes or nimpha , As it is called scientific and poetic. The five or six field wasp species found in Austria (in Germany there are only four), can very well distinguish the female mind. Thus, the combination speaks from the top side over the entire length of blackened antennas, yellow cheeks, and completely dark mandibles (upper jaw) is unique for this species





wasp love usually quite dry, warm and sunny. Accordingly, our queen's nest in the blazing sun has mounted, protected from rain fairly reasonable by the projecting roof. Slams the sun something too hard on the brood, the mother provides for even cooling. She stands on the honeycomb and fanning their wings in the air cells.

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The first eggs

The weather, though still quite cool and the Queen has not yet much more active, but in some cells one can see the first eggs. Two days ago they were still not there.