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Acknowledgements 
I thank Gary Fritz and particularly Sandra Skar for help in collect¬ 
ing the wasps. Special thanks are due Carmine Lanciani for criticiz¬ 
ing the manuscript and performing the truncated negative binomial 
distribution analysis. 
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