wasps in English

noun
1
a social winged insect that has a narrow waist and a sting. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects.
Another hazard that sometimes faced the picker was disturbing a nest of wasps or some other stinging creatures.
2
a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds.
In the garden dill attracts beneficial insects, including bees, parasitic wasps and tachinid flies.

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1. Braconids and Chalcids (39) Carrot Wasps (5) Cockroach Wasps (6) Ensign Wasps (25) Ichneumons (298) Pelecinids (17) Platygasterid Wasps (1) Potter and Mason Wasps (46) Scoliid Wasps (82) spider wasps (127) Tarantula Hawks (48) Thread Waisted Wasps (151) Thynnid Wasps (5) Tiphiid Wasps (16) Velvet Ants (135) Webspinners (21) Whiteflies (6) Worms

2. Aphelinus Abdominalis are parasitic wasps

3. That's a wasps' nest.

4. It came to be controlled by a contingent of WASPs, wannabe WASPs, and social climbers.

5. Aphelinus Abdominalis are parasitic wasps

6. The wasps were beginning to Annoy me.

7. Most bees and wasps are social insects.

8. The more important Ichneumonoid wasps are species in one of two families, Braconidae (Braconids) and Ichneumonidae (Ichneumons) wasps

9. Male wasps, deceived, attempt to copulate with it.

10. The wasps were beginning to annoy me.

11. Some species of wasps are parasitoids of Cockroaches: adult wasps capture and sting the roaches, lay eggs on them, and the wasp larvae eat the paralyzed roach.

12. Wasps also tend to have “thinner” bodies compared to Bees

13. Go just north of the bivouac and kill 8 Belaboring Wasps

14. And attacks from various diseases, locusts and wasps require constant vigilance.

15. Cicada killer wasps exist, They’re basically a wasp that feeds on Cicadas

16. Other insects, such as ants and wasps, follow behind the Aphids, licking up the honeydew.

17. And other closely related yeasts are primarily associated with Aculeates (bees and wasps)

18. Rue draws her attention to a nest of tracker jackers, genetically modified venomous wasps.

19. Braconids Braconids come from the Braconidae family, which is a family of parasitoid wasps

20. The spruce Budworm has a number of natural predators, including birds, spiders and parasitic wasps

21. The wasps feed on caterpillars , praying mantids , bugs , grasshoppers , beetles , dead snakes and other meat .

22. Wasps can sting repeatedly, as opposed to some Bees that lose their stinger once it is used.

23. Like other fig species, Banyans bear their fruit in the form of a structure called a "syconium".The syconium of Ficus species supply shelter and food for fig wasps and the trees depend on the fig wasps for pollination.

24. Following a perfume trail to its source, male wasps in Australia ravish a king spider orchid.

25. Treat the wasps with an antibiotic and, lo and behold, two genders reappear among the offspring.

26. Bees, for the most part, are hairier than wasps due to their need to gather pollen

27. But if female thynnid wasps are active, males will invariably choose one of them, not the impostor.

28. Buckwheats reliably attract a whole symphony of pollinators including native bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, beetles, and birds

29. 18 Treat the wasps with an antibiotic and, lo and behold, two genders reappear among the offspring.

30. Adult wasps must have escaped out the trapdoor at the top of the cocoon where the strap attaches.

31. (Apinae), almost all Meliponinae, all Bombus (Bombinae), honey wasps in the Polistinae, and honey ants in the Formicinae and Dolichoderinae

32. Whilst several studies have investigated how bees and wasps (Aculeates) respond to management at the scale of the scheme (i.e

33. These early wasps gave rise to the bees and the ants that have covered the world and changed the biosphere.

34. And when Marwood made the jump, he was covered with wasps stinging him in the face and eyes.

35. 28 Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through. 

36. 1 Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through. 

37. Braconids and ichneumonids are small black, orange, or yellow wasps that prey on immature insects such as cranberry fruitworm larvae

38. Dead wasps that were placed in the sun reached abnormally high temperatures when compared to those on nearby plants.

39. Included in the family Vespidae are the social wasps, which are perhaps the best known Aculeates after the bees.

40. Braconids are small black, orange or yellow wasps that prey on larvae of grape berry moth and other insects

41. Asian honeyBees have exhibited what scientists call a form of tool use to deter attacks by giant predatory wasps.

42. But the male's back looks very like the youngest cluster of eggs and that seems to confuse the wasps.

43. For bees and wasps, members of the Hymenoptera order, they serve instead as tools for pollen-collecting and wax-molding.

44. Bees are closely related to certain types of wasps, the principal biological difference between them being that Bees (except for parasitic Bees) provide their young with a mixture of pollen and honey, whereas wasps feed their young animal food or provision their nests with insects or spiders

45. Braconids in English schildwespen in Dutch bracksteklar in Swedish braconid wasps in English braconider in Swedish schildwespen in Dutch Bibliographic References

46. Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down.

47. 15 Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift 

48. We report experiments using two closely related species of alysiine Braconids directed at understanding how gregarious development evolved in one subfamily of parasitoid wasps

49. 8 Bees and wasps will leave their stings in the flesh of their enemies, employing a similarly aggressive form of self-mutilation.

50. Birds, squirrels, and Massospora cicadina are the biggest enemies of Cicadas, as well as praying mantis, Cicada killer wasps, and freshwater fish Australian bass