Thursday, October 1, 2009

Cineplex Brampton Job

monkeys bustle wild

studied Following yesterday's post ( Green Porno - The sex life of animals ) here are a matching video:



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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Home Made Jack Off Toys

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.

Polistes dominulus. Foto: Klaus Steiner (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.

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)

Friday, May 19, 2006

Strikes Dolphin Mall Birthday Party

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.

Polistes dominulus. Foto: KLaus Steiner (2006)
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.