Thank you very much Pankaj Sir for the ID of those very special insects. It was a long pending puzzle to me. I learn from your note to Madhuri Ji that those insects are called cicada, will have to search and read more about them.
However the wasp is Yellow-Oriental-Paper-Wasp (Polistes olivaceus) as have been indicated by you. I have another one at - http://surajitkoley.blogspot.in/2010/08/wasp-n-hornet.html Thank you very very much once again. Regards, surajit On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > Madhuri ji, the wasp in Surajit ji's picture looks like Paper wasp > Polistes sp.. > > During hot summer when I walk in forest I feel shower of water drops. > These drops are not specific to any tree species. This shower is due to > forest cicada. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRiXADag74 > > [In Traditional Healing, the Healers having expertise in Entomotherapy and > Entomophagy use it with different herbs as medicine.] > > You can feel falling water drops in shade of Shorea robusta trees > specially during summer. Shorea is one of the trees used in Traditional > Tree Shade Therapy of India. [Google results for Tree Shade Therapy- > https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22tree+shade+therapy%22+pankaj+oudhia&oq=%22tree+shade+therapy%22+pankaj+oudhia&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=serp.3...340895.349171.0.349537.34.34.0.0.0.0.378.4281.9j24j0j1.34.0.RSk0eidbGG8 > ) > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > >
