Notes on the Habits of a Digger Wasp and Its Inquiline Flies
| Autor: | E. J. Newcomer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1930 |
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| Zdroj: | Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 23:552-563 |
| ISSN: | 1938-2901 0013-8746 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/aesa/23.3.552 |
| Popis: | One fine day in early April I noticed a large, steely blue wasp running awkwardly along the ground on tip toes. It was carrying a full grown cutworm, longer than itself, which it straddled and held in its mandibles. I had read something of the habits of the digger wasps, as written by Fabre, the Peck-hams, and others, and as this occurrence was taking place in a vacant lot next to my laboratory, I seized the opportunity of learning something about digger wasps at first hand. During that season and the next I observed these wasps at every opportunity. Then a house was built on the vacant lot and my observations were brought to an end. But during the two seasons I saw some rather startling things. I am somewhat chagrined, however, to think that I had occupied this laboratory for a number of years in succession without even suspecting the presence of these wasps. I suppose, being a mere economic entomologist, I had been too narrowly concerned with such ordinary things as the codling moth and the San Jose scale. Once my attention was directed to the wasps, however, my economic training possibly enabled me to see some things that were overlooked or even deliberately put aside by some of the earlier observers. |
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