Interesting discussion.. Surajit: what is this Vespa? where is it in that pic in the link you gave?
The insects in this particular picture are not Aphids... wonder what are they? Usha di ------- On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:23 AM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > I have seen such phenomenon on Indian Coral Tree (*Erythrina* sp.). Later > i found out that those trees were heavily infested with some aphids and > those aphids were spewing water continuously. I think those aphids received > their supply of water form the tree itself. > > I am pasting a link of an image where you can see the wet branches of the > tree as well as one of those aphid - > http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/107367.jpg (please ignore those vespa). > There were many trees, actually those trees were grown from cuttings and > used as a fence, and all was infested with water spewing aphids! > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Friday, 27 April 2012 19:44:56 UTC+5:30, Ganesh Dhamodkar wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> Here is another request ID from me. This tree has a quite interesting >> feature; one can feel tiny water droplets over our skin when we stand below >> it. The droplets are so tiny that they can't be seen, but there's >> certainly a feeling of droplets. >> >> >> >> These trees are planted along the Nagpur-Amravati highway. These grow as >> a big tree; a full-size tree photo is attached alongwith. The leaves look >> bi-lobed like the leaves that we offer on Vijayadashmi, but here they are a >> bit smaller in size and more delicate. The current season seems to be the >> season of new leaves. Most of the trees were still without leaves; this >> one photographed tree had these new delicate leaves. There seemed to be a >> flattened, dry, pod-like structures at the top; may be remnant from the >> last season, but it was too high to see or shoot properly; can't say sure >> about it. >> >> >> >> Can you please identify this for me? I wanted to at least make a simple >> Google search, but I don't even know with what name shall I search it! >> >> >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> >> >> Ganesh >> >> (Tweet me at @ganeshdhamodkar <http://twitter.com/ganeshdhamodkar>) >> > -- Usha di ===========
