Pitcher portrait
It was early in the season, so Exyra damage had only begun. But as I composed this
photograph I noticed something that I had been seeing all day long, but which just had not properly registered.
Look at the large, ragged holes cut in the pitchers.
What is doing this? A paper cutting wasp?
I have seen such wasps in S. jonesii, as I
reported on in a 2007 expedition. Was this the same thing?
Peering inside such damaged pitchers, I could see no larvae. Nor could I correlate this with the presence or absence of
Exyra larvae or damage.
I still do not have a good answer.
