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.

Polistes dominulus. Foto: Klaus Steiner (2006)
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.

Polistes dominulus. Foto: Klaus Steiner (2006)

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