| Photo Information |
Copyright: Richard Eccleston (Klapaucius)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-08 |
| Categories: Insects |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-04-19 6:20 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
As seen at Ol Tukai Safari Lodge, in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
These huge waspsm, about five inches long, flew every day from beyond Ol Tukai's fence all the way to just outside my lodge. They were collecting this soil, and then flying away with it. The strange thing is that they always came to exactly the same spot in the soil. I mean, the very same square centimetre of soil. Very odd.
I suspect they were collecting it for building a nest.
The wasps, though huge, posed no threat. I guess if someone went out of their way to aggravate one then it would sting them, but unlike wasps I know these did not actively seek you out and sting you. One flew close to me once, looking me up and down, to see what I was. Satisfied I was just a Buffalo or a Zebra, it went back to the soil. |
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