Deuteragenia ossarium
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deuteragenia-ossarium-197-5420775
title:
Deuteragenia ossarium
text:
Deuteragenia ossarium, the bone-house wasp, is a species of pompilid wasp discovered in southeast China in 2014. It was named after graveyard bone-houses or ossuaries, from its characteristic use of a vestibular cell filled with dead ants which is built by the female wasp to close the nest after she lays her eggs. This technique is theorized to make the species' nests less vulnerable to predatory enemies than nests of other sympatric trap-nesting wasps, possibly by utilizing chemical cues in odo
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Species of wasp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteragenia_ossarium
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date modified:
2024-01-29T07:02:27Z
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