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This is the last of the sequence showing how a potter wasp build and raise its youngs. Seen here is a team of cleaner flies waiting patiently for the young wasp to emerge. Once the newly hatched wasp is out they will begin to clean up the used nest chamber by consuming whatever that is left inside. In nature nothing goes to waste. This is nature's room service. As to how the parent wasp engage their service is still nature's best kept secret. Hope nature is kind enough to give up its secret to me one day :) Unfortunately, I did not manage to capture the young wasps emerging from the nest,
Hope to catch them in the next nesting season.
Got a chance to witness a nest building process by a mud dauber wasp (potter wasp).
When I noticed her presence in my potted plant I think she already build
one or more nest chamber around a branch. She was carrying small wet ball of mud
back and started sticking it around and on top of another chamber she build earlier.
It took just under 3 hrs to complete an urn-shaped chamber about 20mm in size with a small opening facing the side. Since the nest construction takes place inside my house I have the luxury to observe and photograph the entire nest building process in total comfort.
She would repeat the mud carrying process every about 15 to 20 mins interval. The burning questions are where she obtain the mud and how she manage the navigation between the nest construction site and the source of the building materials.
Once the chamber is completed she would then leave it to dry. After about 2 hours, she return to check on the chamber and once she is satisfy that it’s completely dried and ready, she would go look for caterpillars. Adult potter wasp feed on nectar.
Once she found a suitable prey she would sting it with just the right amount of venom to immobilise it. Following, she would lay an egg onto it and carry the paralysed prey back to the nest chamber. She then insert the prey into the chamber and sealed the opening
with a final dose of mud. Once the egg hatch the larva would feed on the live but incapacitated prey until it is fully grown and bite its way out from the chamber to repeat the cycle of a wasp life once more.
Another very interesting thing I noticed was when the baby wasps were about to break out from the mud nest about 3 weeks later, a group of flesh flies would arrive each morning around 9-10 o’clock and stick around the nest. By now, there were 3 small holes around the mud nest indicating that 3 wasps had already emerged and flew away.
That prompt me to suspect these flies were cleaners which help to clear/clean the nest chamber of scraps left behind by the wasp after it leave.
Nothing goes to waste, any remains of the caterpillar which was brought into the nest which serve as food for the larva to feed would be finished off nicely by this team of room service flies. I'm not sure if the same group of 8-9 flies take part in the cleaning process, they all look the same :)
The cleaning team however would leave by 10 in the morning if no wasp emerged as they would have to attend to another nest somewhere else or they might have other duties to perform. These flies are pretty busy actually.
I still have no idea how and why these flies managed to find their way here regularly. Whether are they ‘paid ‘ for the service by the mother wasp is anyone guess.
Wasp size approx 3cm
full report
For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Marshals Service has conducted a high-impact national fugitive apprehension initiative focusing on the country’s most violent offenders. This six-week initiative, called Operation Violence Reduction12 (Operation VR12), resulted in the arrest of more than 8,075 gang members, sex offenders and other violent criminals.
While Operation VR12 was conducted nationwide in all 94 federal judicial districts, U.S. Marshals focused special attention on 12 selected locations, designated as priority cities by the U.S. Department of Justice: Baltimore; Brooklyn, New York; Camden, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; Compton, California; Fresno, California; Gary, Indiana; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New Orleans; Oakland, California; Savannah, Georgia; and Washington, D.C.
In order to have the greatest impact on violent crime, Operation VR12 focused on fugitives who had three or more prior felony arrests for crimes such as murder, attempted murder, robbery, aggravated assault, arson, abduction/kidnapping, weapon offenses, sexual assault, child molestation and narcotics. Operation VR12 investigators increased their focus on fugitives accused of sex crimes and on the recovery of missing children.
Between February 1 and March 11, the U.S. Marshals Service used its multi-jurisdictional investigative authority and fugitive task force network to arrest 648 gang members and others wanted on charges including 559 for homicide; and 946 for sexual offenses. In addition, investigators seized 463 firearms, $390,360 in currency, and more than 71 kilograms of illegal narcotics. Also during the operation, investigators recovered 17 children who had been abducted and reported missing.
Please Credit:
(Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals)
Roam Transit operate some coaches on the express service that connects Banff to the beautiful Lake Louise. One is seen at the lake end of the route, boarding for a trip back to town.
Operator: Roam Transit
Vehicle: MCI D45 CRT LE
Fleet No.: 1027
Location: Lake Louise Parking Lot, AB
Route: 8X: Lake Louise - Banff
Date: August 23, 2020
All six Euro 6 DAF LF Skip Lorries, (MM64 GBN, DT15 GBN, DC65 GBN, JH16 GBN, ML16 GBN & PM64 GBN) sit lined up outside the Workshop early in the morning as they wait for their drivers.
Telford Coaches PO18 FDL in Golden Square Berwick Upon Tweed 8 Minutes Early On the 09:00 Harrier Service 503 From Hawick To Eyemouth
To live on the moon, you would need an atmosphere. On Earth the atmosphere is generated very largely by living organisms. To survive in your new atmosphere, you would have to take with you rather a lot of stuff that nature supplies here on Earth. Although many humans live in great luxury, more or less disconnected with the living world in their own perceptions, almost all of their well-being depends on goods and services delivered by things that live.
Everything we eat, for example, was recently nourished by ecosystems in the soil. These days the work of those soil organisms is often supplemented or disrupted by products synthesised from oil - another product of ecosystems, albeit ecosystems that lived some 360 million years ago. Cotton, wool, timber, and many pharmaceuticals are the product of the living world.
In 1981 Paul and Anne Ehrlich coined the term “ecosystem service” to refer to these things that humans get from the living world. A decade later the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment categorised the services into “provisioning” services such as food and fibre; “regulating” services such as control of climate, floods or disease; “cultural” services such as spiritual, cognitive, aesthetic and cultural benefits; and “supporting services” such as production of atmospheric oxygen, soil formation, and nutrient cycling, that themselves maintain the conditions for life on Earth.
This picture illustrates one of the more depressing findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, or MA; most of the ecosystems on Earth have been and continue to be degraded. The culprit, in every case, is the human species, either directly or indirectly. There are so many of us, and we demand so much from the planet, that ecosystem services are increasingly disrupted.
Among the out of focus tiles you will see “food” and “water”, and several other services that are missing letters here and there.
European Railway Services diesellocomotief PB10 passeert met een containertrein aan de haak het bedrijventerrein Venlo Trade Port West.
European Railway Services dieselengine PB10 is passing the industrial estate Venlo Trade Port West.
MOC: Auto Service. A modern interpretation of the classic set 646 by the same name.
I design all my MOCs digitally first, using MLCad. The is how the MLCad model looks in LDView.
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A VW 1200 in the VW museum in Wolfsburg.
Former vehicle of the german postal service.
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AMTK 716 blasts through Appleby GO doing every bit of permitted track speed on VIA 97, heading towards the Niagara area.
By the time 97 cleared he was already lined up to Seaway.
Leyton's Mercedes-Benz Arocs 2648S Double Drive Tractor Unit, (PT63 GBN) which has now been customised with further Kelsa Bar's, further Air Horn's, Fog light's and Alloy Wheel's.