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Hi Nancy and All, Sept 27, 2013
As a pure guess, bumping into objects and crawling up a wall in a
haphazard way does not sound like the behavior of insects that will be able
to successfully survive a winter; more like the behavior of cast-off workers
who came back to life somewhat when the sun came out after several cool wet
days. The latter would account for so many in motion at once.
Yt, DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "nancy dowd" <nancypdowd@gmail.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 6:09 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] paper wasp reproductives?
> This afternoon as we were walking along the edge of the second level deck,
> there was a steady stream of Paper Wasps (Polistes) coming from below and
> clumsily landing on the sides of the house. Eventually they found their
> way over the roof. The main rush was over after about 30min aside from a
> few stragglers.
>
> One of the wasps (details in captions):
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9971323574/
> You can see over 6 in this small area of wall (magnify by clicking image):
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9971440403/
>
> They had no interest in me or the labs except occasionally running into us
> and buzzing away although we were a bit scared at first. I am guessing
> these were reproductives similar to the large flying ants I see in early
> summer on their mating flight? I have never experienced this before with
> wasps.
>
> Nancy
>
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