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Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)
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Copyright © 2011
Gary R. McClellan
Polistes? -
Polistes fuscatus
Sarasota County, Florida, USA
February 6, 2011
Size: 1 in.
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Contributed by
Gary R. McClellan
on 21 February, 2011 - 3:32pm
Last updated 21 January, 2013 - 3:52pm
Moved
Moved from
Polistes
.
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Matthias Buck
, 21 January, 2013 - 3:52pm
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Vespula Vulgaris
, 27 February, 2011 - 10:58am
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Hmm...
I've seen other types of wasps and bees in this kind of position before. What I've seen is that they're usually killed by a fungus, like Cordyceps or others. They either have just the mandibles locked in, or they have their legs wrapped around an object and the mandibles in.
The coating on the joints, antennae and rest of the head lead me to this conclusion.
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Cassie Novak
, 21 February, 2011 - 4:11pm
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Hmm...
I was wondering what it might have died from. Interesting, I've never seen this before. Thank you for the response.
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Gary R. McClellan
, 21 February, 2011 - 4:29pm
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It does
It does seem like there is fungus exploding from various articulations between segments (such as tibia with tarsus).
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Brendon E. Boudinot
, 26 February, 2011 - 1:55am
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Interesting
The only other image we have of a fungus-killed
Polistes
is also from Sarasota County, FL.
That one has obvious
Cordyceps
-type fruiting bodies. I don't know if this could be an earlier stage of the same thing, or something entirely different.
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Charley Eiseman
, 29 March, 2011 - 4:35pm
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