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.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Chinese Hair Straighning
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.
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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