Language: Swedish
Social construction artists. When ants and wasps come to speak, different emotions are awakened within us. They can be of the negative kind if you got ants in your bum from sitting on a pile of red ants or accidentally coming across a wasp's nest.
On closer acquaintance, the reluctance may change to fascination for the masterful construction art of the wasps or the well-ordered societies of the ants. The red forest ant with its large stacks is perhaps the most familiar ant to most people, but what many people don't know is that only 16 of our 81 species of ants build stacks. Only the females have stingers One of the most important functions of the wasps' stinger is that it enables them to paralyze prey and to defend the nest. The solitary species must be able to ensure that their own larva has fresh food available while it is growing. Setting up a protected food supply for one's own offspring assumes that the prey is not dead, just paralyzed. The community-building social species live almost exclusively as predators. They kill their prey which they then feed their larvae. That way, the larvae get a protein-rich diet and can grow quickly.
Product information
Authors: Per Douwes, Johan Abenius, Björn Cederberg & Urban Wahlstedt
Illustrators: Krister Hall, Mattias Starkenberg, Christopher Reisborg & Torbjörn Östman
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789188506788
Language: Swedish
Weight: 1837 grams
Series: The national key to Sweden's flora and fauna
Released: 2012
Publisher: ArtDatabanken SLU
Pages: 382