New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets - Basketball Hall of Famers:. None as of the 2004-05 season. New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets - Not to be forgotten:. Kenny Anderson Muggsy Bogues Rex Chapman - First player drafted by the franchise Dell Curry Vlade Divac Larry Johnson Eddie Jones Anthony Mason Alonzo Mourning J.R. Reid Glen Rice < ...

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The franchise played its first game as the Charlotte Hornets in October 1988. The name "Hornets" was chosen because of its traditional use by Charlotte's professional sports teams. (Charlotte Hornets was used by the city's minor league baseball franchises from 1901 to 1972, and by its entry in the short-lived World Football League in 1974 and 1975.) The name derived from the nickname "Hornets' Nest" that was bestowed upon the city by Lord General Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. The team was led by guard Kelly Tripucka, ...

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Vespoidea is a Superfamily of Order Hymenoptera of Class Insecta, although other taxonomic schemes may vary in this categorization. The members of this group are wasps and ants. Vespoidea - Vespoid Families. Formicidae - ants Mutillidae -- velvet ants Pompilidae -- spider wasps Rhopalosomatidae -- rhopalosomatid wasps Sapygidae -- sapygid wasps Scoliidae -- scoliid wasps Sierolomorphidae -- sierolomorphid wasps Tiphiidae -- tiphiid ...

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New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets - Basketball Hall of Famers:. None as of the 2004-05 season. New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets - Not to be forgotten:. Kenny Anderson Muggsy Bogues Rex Chapman - First player drafted by the franchise Dell Curry Vlade Divac Larry Johnson Eddie Jones Anthony Mason Alonzo Mourning ...

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Expansion Team - 1980. NBA: Dallas Mavericks Expansion Team - 1987. AFL: Brisbane Bears/Lions West Coast Eagles Expansion Team - 1988. NBA: Charlotte Hornets Miami Heat Expansion Team - 1989. NBA: Minnesota Ti ...

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Vespula (yellowjackets) Vespa (hornets) Polistes (paper wasps) (etc.) The vespidae are a family of wasps, including all social wasps and some solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of sterile workers. Colonies usually only last one year, dying at the onset of winter. New queens and males (drones) are produced towards the end ...

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See text. A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee, sawfly, or an ant. Less familiar, the suborder Symphyta includes the sawflies and wood wasps, which differ from the Apocrita by having a broad connection between the thorax and abdomen. Also, Symphyta larvae are mostly herbivorous and "caterpillarlike", whereas those of Apocrita are largely predatory or parasitic. Most familiar wasps belong to the Aculeata, a division of the Apocrita, whose ovipositors are modif ...

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The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), the world's largest hornet, is a native of temperate and tropical Eastern Asia. Its body length is between 27 mm (1.1 inches) and 45 mm (1.8 inches), with a wingspan of about 76 mm (3 inches). Queens may reach a length of 55 mm (2.2 inches). Asian giant hornet - Anatomy. The head of the hornet is orange and quite wide in comparison to other hornet species. The compound eyes and ocelli are dark brown, and the antennae are dark brown with orange scapes. The cl ...

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The Bald-faced hornet or White-faced hornet Dolichovespula maculata is not a true hornet at all. It is actually more closely related to another type of American wasp called the yellowjacket than it is to true hornets like the Asian giant hornet or European hornet. The Baldfaced hornet lives throughout North America, including southern Canada, the Rocky Mountains, the western coast of the United States, and most of the eastern US. They are most common in the southeastern United States. They are best known for their ...

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Hornets are large eusocial wasps. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespids by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist). Hornet - Geographical distribution. The genus Vespa comprises about 20 species, most of which are native to tropical Asia, but there is a species found across temperate Eurasia fro ...

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Hornets are large eusocial wasps. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespids by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist). Hornet - Geographical distribution. The genus Vespa comprises about 20 species, most of which are native to tropical Asia, but there is a species found across temperate Eurasia fro ...

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The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers. This is a group of birds which breeds in open country in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the Old World. Just as the expressive name reveals, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air b ...

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As of 2005 Louisiana is nominally the least populous state with more than one major professional sports league franchise. However, the effects of Hurricane Katrina have forced the National Basketball Association's New Orleans Hornets to play their games in Oklahoma City for the 2005-06 season. The National Football League's New Orleans Saints are playing most of their 2005 regular season games in Baton Rouge, however the long-term future of that franchise is also uncertain. Louisiana - Football. New Orleans Saints New Orleans VooD ...

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The Cicada Killer Wasp is a large, solitary wasp. It is so named because is hunts cicadas and provisions its nest with them. In North America it is sometimes called the Sand Hornet, although it is not a hornet, which belong to the family Vespidae. Cicada Killer Wasp - Taxonomy. The North American cicada killer wasps all belong to the genus Sphecius, of which there are 21 species worldwide. The four cicada-killing species in North America are: Sphecius speciosus (Drur ...

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As of 2005 Louisiana is nominally the least populous state with more than one major professional sports league franchise. However, the effects of Hurricane Katrina have forced the National Basketball Association's New Orleans Hornets to play their games in Oklahoma City for the 2005-06 season. The National Football League's New Orleans Saints are playing most of their 2005 regular season games in Baton Rouge, however the long-term future of that franchise is also uncertain. Louisiana - Football. New Orleans Saints New Orleans VooD ...

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Common causative agents in humans include: foods (e.g. milk, cheese, nuts, peanuts, soybeans and other legumes, fish and shellfish, wheat and eggs); drugs (e.g. penicillin and other cephalosporins, contrast media, ASA and other NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and diclofenac); latex; Hymenoptera stings from insects such as bees, wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and some stinging ants; and exercise (see exercise-induced anaphylaxis). Transfusion of incompatible blood products may lead to extremely similar symptoms, albeit for substa ...

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Symptoms of anaphylaxis are related to the action of immunoglobulin E (IgE) and other anaphylatoxins, which act to release histamine and other mediator substances from mast cells (degranulation). In addition to other effects, histamine induces vasodilation and bronchospasm (constriction of the airways). Symptoms can include the following: respiratory distress, hypotension (low blood pressure), fainting, unconsciousness, urticaria (hives), flushed appearance, angioedema (swelling of the face, neck and throat), vomiting, itching, and anxiety, in ...

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The following characteristics are present in most wasps: Two pairs of wings (exception: female Mutillidae) A stinger (only present in females because it derives from the ovipositor) Few or no hairs (in contrast to bees); exception: Mutillidae. Though less efficient than bees, some wasp species are significant pollinators. Predators or parasitoids, mostly on other insects; some species of Pompilidae, such as the tarantula hawk, spec ...

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