Oh no!!!!!!!!!!! Pennsylvania, USA
well i recently collected a large P. exclamans nest that had tons of capped cells. Since it is so late in the season, any wasps that hatched out now must be new queens or males so i was planning on keeping any females that hatch out for an experiment in the spring.
well i uncapped a few cells to find they were all parasitized. I uncapped all the rest to find almost ALL of them were parasitized too! there are only 3 good wasp pupa i dont know where im gonna get the queens i wanted
In some cells, little fruit fly like things came out (which i am assuming are parasitic wasps) and in most others there were magot like things... whats responsible?
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Contributed by Vespula vulgaris on 13 September, 2008 - 1:03pm Last updated 15 October, 2008 - 12:06pm |