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Who/What: An Undergraduate Talk by
Grayson Rodriguez and Katie Jones
Where: ST111
When: Friday, March 6th, 2009, at 3:05
Abstract:
Female cicada killer wasps reputedly hunt cicadas opportunistically, but an analysis of two communities in Florida indicates that the wasps hunt selectively by size (hunting the largest cicada they can handle). While both communities support similar cicada populations, whose sizes can be grouped as small, medium, and large, there is a curious difference between the two sites: one has significantly larger wasps. Another mystery is that both sites have wasp populations that are normally distributed in size, whereas the dogma tells us that individual cicadas are converted into individual (male) wasps. Why, then, do we not see three distinct sizes of male wasps?
Come explore these and other mysteries. There will be refreshments!
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