Science Question for September 2010
I was reading about Jack Tatum’s death when I noticed that a wasp had found a piece of my bitten, unripe pear on the deck. The fragment was about a centimeter in length but heavy enough to prevent the wasp’s takeoff. Instead the wasp dragged it across the floor for about two and a half meters until it reached the edge of the deck. Once off the edge, the wasp was able to fly away.
What do you infer from the above observations? Do birds have similar problems?