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 Who built this nest???
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| pilonm |
Posted on 06-04-2009 21:56
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Member Location: Sherbrooke Quebec Canada Posts: 66 Joined: 07.11.06 |
Hello all, First of all I hope I am in the good forum for this request. A friend photographied that nest within a Eastern bluebird nest box in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (near Vermont, USA). It doesn't look as a hemynoptera nest but I think it is something created by diptera larvae. Am I wrong??? Any idea about which kind of insects (family/genus/species) built it??? Thank you, Michel  |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 06-04-2009 23:44
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7273 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Galleriinae, Aphomia sociella or a related species
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| pilonm |
Posted on 09-04-2009 21:26
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Member Location: Sherbrooke Quebec Canada Posts: 66 Joined: 07.11.06 |
Thank you very much Tony! I think you are rigjt! It can easily be a parasited bumblebee nest by a colony of Aphomia sp. Aphomia sociella is not present in Quebec but a related species of the same genus could be the culprit. Thanks alot! Michel |
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