Based on our conversation with Dr. Steve Peterson we decided to explore the contents of the three PVC tubes at Site1a2.
It ended up in a frightening "Alien" scene/video:
The first two at Site1a2c and Site1a2b both showed all cocoons open:
And a here's Gene discussing the findings:
Those above two sites were in hotter locations, that is, more in the sun than the third Site1a2a. The results there were different. There were 22 opened male cocoons (based on size, sorted by Gene), 21 females, and 20 or so unopened.
Some Gene discussion:
And here's what Gene found in the dissected cocoon:
So we opened another one, two videos and a photo:
The first lesson we learned is don't let Jim perform surgery on you, or even bee cocoons.
Not knowing what we had, we emailed the photos to our expert, Dr Steve Peterson.
He immediately reported back:
" Those are Monodontomerus larvae. They are not uncommon unfortunately. You can read about them in Bosch and Kemp’s 2001 book. Once you are sure that most bees have hatched you should destroy all the old cocoons; they emerge after the bees.
Steve Peterson 209-338-7110"
There is lot's of information on Monodontomerus here, including a very scary Alien like video:
Great thanks to George Pilkington for creating that video. His website is definitely worth a visit.
https://crownbees.com/blog/spring_remove_protect/
https://www.facebook.com/CrownBees/posts/watch-out-for-parasitic-waspsmonodontomerus-or-mono-for-short-is-an-interesting-/801325253249397/
Next we will show you how we responded to Steve's advice on shading, seemed to add evidence to his advice on shading, and planned our epic road trip to Cottonwood/Cornville and Payson to distribute 2,500 to 4,000 more bees and associated habitats.
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