Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: More Wasp Info
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 15:18:10 -0500
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Thanks, Lluis.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lluis Ripoll" <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: More Wasp Info


> +1
>
> Lluis
>
> El 26/05/2012, a las 20:50, Jim Nichols escribi?:
>
>> After searching for two days, I located some information that sheds 
>> light on the wasp that I photographed on the Butterfly Bush.  It is  some 
>> variant of the Potter Wasp (Eumenes Coarctatus).  This reminded  me that, 
>> when I took my wife's old Volvo to the shop, the shop  foreman and I 
>> puzzled over the strange clay creations on the top of  the radiator.  It 
>> turns out that they were nests built by a potter  wasp.
>>
>> The Potter Wasp, in color:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Wasp+09.jpg.html
>>
>> A nest under construction, entry still open:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Potter+Wasp+Nest+35.jpg.html
>>
>> Two nests where the young have departed.  Screw included for scale:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Potter+Wasp+Nest+34.jpg.html
>>
>> Most of the photos I have found of the Potter Wasp show more  colorful 
>> markings.  This one must feel slighted. ;~)
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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