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Cayenne market, yesterday morning

5/17/2015

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Some incredible fruits to be found here! Ended up with some guarana sirop, which apparently is better than caffeine if you're in dire need of energy, and - because it's the done thing in Guyane - some of the local rhum, mixed with squished pitaya (dragonfruit) and maracudja (passionfruit). Which was basically because they look irresistibly tempting in their bright colours. ;)
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I thought these fruits looked vaguely human, lounging around looking at each other in the middle of the market. Maybe I've been staring at wasps for too long...
Cayenne itself is a small, nostalgic kind of city, parts of which look like they probably haven't changed since the 40s. The population of the whole of Guyane is only 250,000, so this isn't a vast metropolis - it's quieter, and still has a lingering colonial air about it... Probably something to do with all those wooden French buildings with their tricolores and wrought iron balustrades... 
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    Hi! I'm Patrick - an early-career postdoc in behavioural ecology. I completed my PhD in 2019, focused on Polistes paper wasps in South and Central America. I'm currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Simons Society Junior Fellow in the Rubenstein Lab at Columbia University (New York) and the ​Radford Lab at the University of Bristol (UK), looking at the social behaviour and evolution of Africa's incredible wasps! I'm always keen to get involved in outreach to spread the word about these amazing animals.

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