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Re: Fire and Absconding
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Jerry Bromenshenk <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:26:39 -0400
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Peter
 
Add chemical stress to your reasons for absconding.  Sulfuric acid plant emissions, some volatiles and semi-volatiles, on an inversion day, can induce absconding - we've documented this several times at hazardous waste sites, around smelters.  There are reports by others of the same around smelters, and one thesis from Pennsylvania of absconding near coal-burning power plants and other sulfur sources.  In the latter, the effect was shown also in other hymenoptera, mainly vespids.


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