Image rare et étonnante de l'intérieur du nid de boue / guêpe potier montrant les oeufs d'insectes, chenilles et larves à divers stades de métamorphose

• Contributeur: Stephanie Jackson - Australian wildlife collection / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2WYH75P
• Taille du fichier: 48,1 MB (2,1 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4933 x 3411 px | 41,8 x 28,9 cm | 16,4 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 2 mars 2023
• Lieu: Queensland Australia

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A rare image. Many species of wasps create mud 'nests' in which to lay their eggs. They capture caterpillars that they stuff into the nest, and when the wasp's eggs hatch the larvae feed on the still living caterpillars before ultimately, via the miracle of metamorphosis, changing into adult wasps. This mud wasp's nest shows every stage of the process - with the 'fresh' caterpillars, together with one of the wasp's eggs in the right hand cell of the nest. To the left of it are two cells in which the caterpillars are gradually being devoured by the newly hatched larvae. In the next cell on the left is the fat golden yellow larvae, and on the far left, in the cell in which the wasp laid her first egg, is a cocoon that the larvae has woven and in which it will pupate before becoming a wasp and leaving the 'nest' to begin the cycle of life all over again.

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• beneficial insects
• cycle de la vie
• cycle de vie
• guêpe de boue
• insectes
• insectesd'australie
• la métamorphose
• larven
• nature
• potter wasp