. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. AFTER SHEDDING ONE MOEE DRESS, PSAMMY IS READY TO MAKE HER DEBUT One brilliant black eye stares fixedly (left). The whole waxlike body has become compact and wasp-shaped. From the thorax, black pigment slowly spreads through the insect, even to the tips of legs and antennae. Articulated armor plates harden on the abdomen. After wriggling out of the transparent pupal sheath, she is a real wasp at last (right).. OUT CLIMBS THE VIRGIN MOTHER; HUNGRY IS HER FATHERLESS SON Using her sharp mandibles like a carpenter's auger, Psammy h
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. AFTER SHEDDING ONE MOEE DRESS, PSAMMY IS READY TO MAKE HER DEBUT One brilliant black eye stares fixedly (left). The whole waxlike body has become compact and wasp-shaped. From the thorax, black pigment slowly spreads through the insect, even to the tips of legs and antennae. Articulated armor plates harden on the abdomen. After wriggling out of the transparent pupal sheath, she is a real wasp at last (right).. OUT CLIMBS THE VIRGIN MOTHER; HUNGRY IS HER FATHERLESS SON Using her sharp mandibles like a carpenter's auger, Psammy has cut her way out of the cocoon. Though she never had a mate, she laid eggs that hatched and produced only "boys (pages 823, 826). Her "synthetic" offspring, sucking honev-water from a pellet of cotton (right), probably can never become a father. This is the only known photograph of a parthenogenetic Psammochand Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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