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Article #560Re: Strange Bee-Like Creatures - What Are They?
From: Dean Pentcheff
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 07:33
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 07:33
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In article <8216@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidca.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes: >I pruned our plum tree last weekend and cut off a dead branch about 8 cm >in diameter. I cut it into log sized chunks and set them down.... >....a black bee-like >creature emerged and flew around. It was almost 2 cm long (I would >estimate) and was almost shapeless (like a large furry raisin). Later a >yellow version came out of the log, and flew in ever higher circles till >it vanished. The yellow one was thinner and had a definite waist. We saw >about four black ones altogether, they mostly stayed on the ground and >seemed torpid as if they had been hibernating. Sounds like overwintering parasitic wasps that you upset. Can't tell you much more offhand, but check an entomology textbook. These guys have some of the strangest life cycles around. -Dean (dean@violet.berkeley.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!sumax!quick!amc-gw!sigma!uw-nsr!dean From: dean@uw-nsr.UUCP (Dean Pentcheff) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Strange Bee-Like Creatures - What Are They? Message-ID: <1572@uw-nsr.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 89 07:33:41 GMT References: <8216@ttidca.TTI.COM> Reply-To: dean@uw-nsr.UUCP (Dean Pentcheff) Followup-To: sci.bio Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Department of Zoology Lines: 15 Summary: Parasitic wasps