[NatureNS] Wasp question

From: "andy dean" <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:57:16 -0300
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    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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