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Hive on Cholla - Mischocyttarus navajo - female
Copyright © 2005 Patrick Alexander

Hive on Cholla - Mischocyttarus navajo - Female
Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 7, 2005
Eric tells me it's Mischocyttarus flavitarsis. All I know is I found this hive on Cylindropuntia imbricata in Copper Canyon.

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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 3 November, 2005 - 11:01pm
Last updated 8 October, 2007 - 6:25pm

Moved
Moved from Mischocyttarus flavitarsis.
… George Waldren, 8 October, 2007 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

Double safety
If the female inhabitants of this small nest are not so prone to sting, the cactus which harbours them will do that for them. Superb shots of an intriguing western species, a very elegant one as you wrote.
One can motice its overall color pattern is virtually identical to that of Polistes (fuscatus) aurifer: a way to allow predators to memorize only one model of "dangerous wasp", called "Mullerian mimicry".
… Richard Vernier, 5 November, 2005 - 5:04am login or register to post comments

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