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With Larvae - Mischocyttarus mexicanus - female

With Larvae - Mischocyttarus mexicanus - Female
Payne's Prairie SP, Alachua County, Florida, USA
April 1, 2007

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With Larvae - Mischocyttarus mexicanus - female With Larvae - Mischocyttarus mexicanus - female

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Beautiful images!
Did you get a chance to video them too?

 
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I did not, as they were being pretty sedate. The one behavior I will try to get next week is this interesting posture/movement of a Polistes annularis when it is disturbed. It seems to wave its forelgs in the air.

5th instar larvae yes...
Pupae not yet. But this will take at most a week, provided this incipient colony survives. Example of a polygynous foundation, the smaller female (left) functioning as a helper (or auxiliary) foundress.

 
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Thanks! I guess I mistook the dark spots for compound eyes.

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