How Paper Wasps ‘Tap’ to Select the Identity of their Larvae 🪰 Into The Wild New Zealand

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Paper wasps have the remarkable ability to choose if a larva grows up to be a worker or a ‘gyne’-a primary reproductive female. They do this by drumming on the walls of the cell where the larva is incubating.
From: Into the Wild New Zealand
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  • @starchild3215
    @starchild3215 Жыл бұрын

    Ok but how does tapping the side of the cells make the larvae fatter?

  • @PerspectiveEngineer

    @PerspectiveEngineer

    Жыл бұрын

    Ask your mom...

  • @starchild3215

    @starchild3215

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PerspectiveEngineer ?

  • @mamabear1324

    @mamabear1324

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@PerspectiveEngineer😂

  • @savvysue3537
    @savvysue3537 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @Redspittingcobra
    @Redspittingcobra Жыл бұрын

    Like how we tap humans.

  • @lalngaihawmapapuia5725
    @lalngaihawmapapuia5725 Жыл бұрын

    Now watching from mizoram ❤

  • @PerspectiveEngineer

    @PerspectiveEngineer

    Жыл бұрын

    Whao! Reals???

  • @lalngaihawmapapuia5725

    @lalngaihawmapapuia5725

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PerspectiveEngineer you mean?

  • @HUNVeasnaRural
    @HUNVeasnaRural21 күн бұрын

    Your district is not cruel, if my district chases dust😮😮😮😮

  • @wonderbean
    @wonderbean Жыл бұрын

    Can someone spell the word he uses for the foundress? It starts with a ‘g’. Like a good rap song

  • @ironbutterfly12

    @ironbutterfly12

    9 ай бұрын

    Gyne.

  • @sharkusvelarde

    @sharkusvelarde

    4 ай бұрын

    Like gynecologist= Greek for female

  • @HebaruSan
    @HebaruSan Жыл бұрын

    Are there males?

  • @yearginclarke

    @yearginclarke

    Жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @americannobody27
    @americannobody27 Жыл бұрын

    Had I still been living in New England in MA, I would say that I would never visit New Zealand ever because of those. I've been living in the desert in AZ for a yr & a half. Bring it on! I've seen bigger & badder.

  • @mzee5533
    @mzee5533 Жыл бұрын

    They were building a nest under my storage shed and I immediately sealed the entrance with silicone

  • @anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425

    @anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425

    3 ай бұрын

    dumb

  • @Ukie_Hags_World
    @Ukie_Hags_World Жыл бұрын

    Ick. I hate wasps. 🚫

  • @maryrosekent8223

    @maryrosekent8223

    Жыл бұрын

    They play an important part in our ecology, but I’m terrified of them.

  • @Ukie_Hags_World

    @Ukie_Hags_World

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maryrosekent8223 "All God's creatures great and small. " 🐝

  • @oat138
    @oat138 Жыл бұрын

    When I see wasps, I get a can of wasp killer and get rid of them immediately!

  • @filonin2

    @filonin2

    Жыл бұрын

    They eat many garden pests like caterpillars so you are mostly hurting yourself and the environment.

  • @insectwildlife37

    @insectwildlife37

    10 ай бұрын

    @@filonin2exactly people are just too ignorant nowadays.

  • @akshonclip
    @akshonclip Жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait for the argument from woke parents who will call this proof they can assign their children’s identity. 🤦‍♂️

  • @mamabear1324

    @mamabear1324

    7 ай бұрын

    😂 I know right it is crazy watching the world we live in. This poor generation is going to be very confused it is scary because are future really is in the next generation hands.

  • @PerspectiveEngineer
    @PerspectiveEngineer Жыл бұрын

    So Equative Socialism... works, for them. Cool. Go wasps

  • @LIZZIE-lizzie
    @LIZZIE-lizzie Жыл бұрын

    That people can believe there's no God. Only God is so unfathomable and all Gods' creatures are unfathomable in magnificence, including man.

  • @billiebleach7889

    @billiebleach7889

    Жыл бұрын

    @Simeun Šiljegović [data not found]

  • @filonin2

    @filonin2

    Жыл бұрын

    That people can believe that there is a god is unfathomable. How could there be a magic man in the sky? There is no such thing as magic and there is just space up there. It's all just stories made up by ignorant goat herders.

  • @akshonclip

    @akshonclip

    Жыл бұрын

    @Simeun Šiljegović Revised and reinterpreted? More like invaded and subjugated.

  • @maryrosekent8223

    @maryrosekent8223

    Жыл бұрын

    Peddle your fairytales elsewhere!

  • @mamabear1324

    @mamabear1324

    7 ай бұрын

    If you want to call the aliens that created as a God's go for it. Religion is a illusion. There is no God.

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