Good morning.
It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-one.
There’s a PTO meeting tonight at Lincoln School, proud home of the Leopards.
Over at ScienceNews, there’s a story about a wasp determined to get an ant out of the way, entitled, “Wasps airlift annoying ants.” The story describes how a wasp, fighting with an ant over food, uses the power of flight to get the ant out of the way.
A kind of wasp that often flees from scary, acid-spraying ants turns out to have a strong move of its own. When both the invasive Vespula vulgaris wasps and native New Zealand ants scramble to collect the same food windfall, one of the wasps sometimes swoops down and grabs an unsuspecting ant, then flies backward and drops it. The ant typically does not choose to return to the food, Julien Grangier and Philip Lester of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, report online March 30 in Biology Letters.
Here’s a video of the maneuver:
AIRBORNE from Science News on Vimeo.