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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1040 on: 28/01/2009 09:48:03 »
None of the above. This thing is a nest, but not made by the insect...The name of this thing is also the name of this insect.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1041 on: 28/01/2009 10:25:27 »
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1042 on: 28/01/2009 10:27:30 »
Er.... hole stag beetle?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1043 on: 28/01/2009 10:30:06 »
Beehive?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1044 on: 28/01/2009 10:34:19 »
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Beehive?

Closest yet. The insect that leaves is a wingéd beast, but not a bee.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1045 on: 28/01/2009 10:35:25 »
Quote from: Chemistry4me on 28/01/2009 10:30:06
Beehive?

What have done wrong now???

Oh! Sorry I thought you said 'behave'.
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« Reply #1046 on: 28/01/2009 10:36:38 »
Holenet (Hornet)
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1047 on: 28/01/2009 10:38:55 »
It's not some strange exotic insect that hardly anyone has heard of is it?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1048 on: 28/01/2009 10:42:27 »
Quote from: Don_1 on 28/01/2009 10:36:38
Holenet (Hornet)

Not a hornet - too big.  Therefore....
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1049 on: 28/01/2009 10:43:51 »
Quote from: Chemistry4me on 28/01/2009 10:38:55
It's not some strange exotic insect that hardly anyone has heard of is it?

No - they are rather common.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1050 on: 28/01/2009 10:44:14 »
A wasp? A moth?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1051 on: 28/01/2009 10:47:06 »
It's a wasp that leaves, yes.

So, what is it?

Don, you're a "tree man", aren't you? I think that you should be able to get it from here!

This happens most frequently on oak species...
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1052 on: 28/01/2009 10:50:27 »
Quote from: Don_1 on 28/01/2009 10:36:38
Holenet (Hornet)

What's a Holenet? Am I missing something?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1053 on: 28/01/2009 11:01:41 »
A tree wasp
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1054 on: 28/01/2009 11:04:11 »
Is that it? [???][???]
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1055 on: 28/01/2009 11:06:04 »
Dolichovespula Sylvestris
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1056 on: 28/01/2009 11:09:58 »
The "thing" is not a tree wasp, but the response of the tree to the wasp laying eggs. It is a gall, and I've called this one Asterix. Look, I'll show you.



The hole you see is the exit hole when the wasp is fully developed. The gall is woody tissue deposited by the tree around the wasp's egg, similar to the way that a pearl is formed. The wasp in question is a Gall wasp, not a Tree wasp.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1057 on: 28/01/2009 11:10:51 »
[;D]
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1058 on: 28/01/2009 12:18:23 »
I don’t know how you’ve got the gall to do that to us.

OK, here's something in very common everyday use


* 069a.jpg (90.08 kB, 367x255 - viewed 478 times.)
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #1059 on: 28/01/2009 12:29:36 »
Metal and rubber?
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