Bimal da wasps are omnivorous eat insects.... in addition to nectar, fruit juices, honey (stealing from bee"s nests) and food usually consumed by humans.
non-vegetarian prey for wasps are spiders, and caterpillars. i have seen them hovering around hibiscus plants infested with aphids. and tabernamontana plants release a milky latex like sap. may be these wasps like to eat that, or eat insects that eat that. donot know. 30+ minutes of googling did not turn up any such instance, may be the info is not there or is buried in some paper that i did not find. Usha di =========== On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 8:45 PM J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Bimal ji. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Bimal Sar kar <bimal....@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 20:29 > Subject: OBSERVATION : 6 > To: > > > I observed wasps visit Ervatamia Sp ( dwarf, may be hybrid ). But their > posture say that they are not collecting nectar. > Can someone tell me what they are after ? > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than > 1,70,000 images are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFDZfUsOam6PEKR%3DTJUU5BnOkxfFk5bAN0GrM7WirYT_8g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFDZfUsOam6PEKR%3DTJUU5BnOkxfFk5bAN0GrM7WirYT_8g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CANAwU1UCUhYNRkYO%3DJWBjbP4d7_-KJAqmhyyiYNkGH17ta-kxg%40mail.gmail.com.
