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Synoeca septentrionalis nest

the nests of Synoeca have a characteristic appearance of overlapping "bags", which are expansions build at intervalls. The nest surface is a hard and corrugated "cardboard". Before staging a mass attack, these wasps are known to sound an alarm by producing a loud scraping sound inside the nest, not unlike the distant strumming of a guitar. From thence the local name of "guitarrera". If you hear a guitar in an unexpected situation: run!

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Uploaded on December 22, 2008
Taken on September 27, 2007