Usha Di, The wasp/vespa is Yellow-Oriental-Paper-Wasp (*Polistes* *olivaceus*) and the link of that image is - http://www.biolib.cz/en/galleryuser/dir2990/?uid=4115.
I noticed this phenomenon in my village sometimes back in 2009. As for the ID of those insects i thought it maybe some types of aphids, never tried to check the ID of them. I will upload some more images in a separate post shortly. And another species of vespa is available at - http://surajitkoley.blogspot.in/2010/08/wasp-n-hornet.html. Both of these two wasp species are common in South Bengal and you may meet them in sweet-shop as well ! Thank you & Regards, surajit On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:55 AM, ushadi Micromini < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > =========== > >
