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D:\Microcosmos\Polist Wasp] [02/22] - 191.jpg (1/1) (Video Capture)
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 |  | 올린이:  | Fask7 (Fask7@nospam.netscape.com) 
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D:\Microcosmos\Polist Wasp] [02/22] - 191.jpg (1/1) (Video Capture) 
 This is the nest of the polist wasp, the paper-maker.
 These bees build a hexagonal nest with the paper produced
 by mixing their saliva with the wood they chew on.
 Larvae of the bee grow in these paper nests.
 
 The worker bees are worried that the hot temperatures
 might heat up their nests. The worker bees adjust the
 room temperature with water. Six days after hatching,
 a larva shelters itself and transforms into a pupa.
 
 Once out of the cocoon, the pupa becomes an adult in
 two weeks. The bee will mature into a worker bee or
 a queen bee depending on the temperature. A larva will
 become a queen bee when exposed to warm temperatures
 and a worker bee when exposed to cool temperatures.
 
 The polist wasp rapidly flaps its wings to raise its
 body temperature and to dry its wet wings.
 
 
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 From: Pollinator@aol.com
 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:44:36 EDT
 Subject: a3/Microcosmos_191-Polistes_Paper_Wasps-capture_by_fask7.jpg
 
 I was just browsing your gallery. I'm glad to find these pics, because there 
 are so few available.  You correctly identify them as Polistes wasps. Why 
 then do you keep calling them bees. They are NOT bees.
 
 
 Dave Green   SC  USA 
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