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Traveling Exhibit

Rainforest

Wasp on nest
Wasp on nest
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Earth's first papermakers were paper wasps. You can distinguish each mouthful of pulped fiber used to build these cells. The round whitish objects are eggs. These wasps are colonial with clustered individual nests but not a shared nest.

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Contents:
1.Ranomafana National Park
 ·Tree Flower
 ·Brown Lemur
 ·Research station
 ·Kids in town
 ·Vatoharanana
River

 ·Orange and blue leafhopper
 ·Saribia butterfly
 ·Yellow line caterpillar
 ·Caterpillars
 ·Wasp on nest
 ·Pygmy Grasshopper
 ·Spider with a sewed leaf nest

2.Analamazoatra Special Reserve
3.Montagne d'Ambre National Park
4.Masoala
Peninsula

5.Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve
6.Former rainforest near Sambava
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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