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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 ...
WASP (an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) is a term that denotes the culture, customs, and heritage of the American élite Establishment. The term was first used by Irish Catholics to designate an adversarial relationship, and was popularized 1 by sociologist E. Digby Baltzell in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America. The term is vague and can be streched or compressed by different writers. Baltzell originally inclu ...
The original WASP élite had an ironclad hold on the social structure of the United States since the early 1800s. Legacy admission to prep schools and to large universities in Ivy League or small liberal arts colleges such as the Five Colleges of Ohio taught habit and attitude and formed connections which carried over to the influential spheres of finance, culture, and politics. Intermarriage preserved large inherited fortunes. Diversions such as polo and yachting marked those with sufficient wealth and leisure to pursue them. Social registe ...
A Wood Wasp, also known as a "parasitic wood wasp" or "horntail", is a mostly harmless flying insect, about 23 mm long, common for example in the United Kingdom. They are named for their habit of feeding on dead wood. The female has a tube at the back of her body which gives her a dangerous look, but it is an ovipositor.
They belong to families Xiphydriidae, Orussidae, Syntexidae or Xyeloidea of the order hymenoptera.
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Wasp waist refers to a style of corset and girdle that has experienced various periods of popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries. This style is often recognized by its sharply exaggerated waistline which also serves to emphasize the hips and bust. The degree in to which the waist is drawn varies with style and preference.
Other related archivescorset, girdle
While easily confusable at a distance or without close observation, there are many different characteristics of bees and wasps which can be used to identify them.
† When walking, you can often see light-colored pollen on the pollen baskets on a honeybee's rear legs.
‡ There are several races of domesticated honeybees with varying characteristics of honey production, disease resistance and gentleness. Since the barbed stinger evolved for combat with other bees, the invariable outcome of stinging ...
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 ...
Vespula (yellowjackets)
Vespa (hornets)
Polistes (paper wasps)
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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 ...
Andrenidae
Apidae
Colletidae
Halictidae
Heterogynaidae
Megachilidae
Melittidae
Oxaeidae
Stenotritidae
Bees (Apoidea superfamily) are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. They are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used for food for the brood.
Bees have a long proboscis that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. Bees have antennae made up of thirteen segments in males and twelve in females. They have two pairs of wings, t ...
Biological control of pests and diseases is a method of controlling pests and diseases in agriculture that relies on natural predation rather than introduced chemicals.
Biological pest control - Overview.
A key belief of the organic gardener is that biodiversity furthers health. The more variety a landscape has, the more sustainable it is. The organic gardener therefore works to create a system where the insects that are sometimes called pests and the pathogens that cause diseases are not eradicated, but in ...
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 ...
Scorpion is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Although somehow related to Spider, the method of game play is akin to Yukon. The object of this game is to form four columns of suit sequence cards from king down to ace.
The game starts with 49 cards dealt into seven columns of seven cards each on the tableau. The first four columns each have three face-down cards with four face-up cards placed over them. The cards in the remaining three columns are all ...
Amphibious assault ships, usually shortened to amphibs, phibs or popularly known as gator freighters, denotes a range of classes of warship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory by an amphibious assault. The largest fleet of these types is operated by the United States Navy, including the Tarawa class dating back to the 1970s and the newer and larger Wasp class ships that debuted in 1989. While grossly resembling aircraft carriers, the role of an amphibious assault ship is fun ...
A Bible Belt is an area in which Evangelical Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture. The best-known Bible Belt covers a number of Midwestern and Southern states in the United States; other countries, including Canada and some parts of Europe also have regions whose culture can be described in similar terms. The name derives from the (perceived) overriding importance of the Christian Bible ...
Subtribe: Sapyginae
Eusapyga
Fedtschenkia
Laura
Monosapyga
Polochrum
Sapyga
Sapygina
The Sapygidae are a family of solitary aluleate wasps. There does not seem to be a common English name, but Club-horned wasps (translating the German name Keulhornwespen - in reference to the distinctive thickening of the antennae) seems as good a name as any.
The female oviposits her eggs into the nests of solitary bees, and the developing larvae consume both the host ...
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The bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus in the family Apidae. Like the common honeybee, of which it is a relative, the bumblebee feeds on nectar and gathers pollen to feed its young. These creatures are beneficial to humans and the plant world alike, and tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. Most, but not all, bumblebee species are gentle. F ...
Volucella pellucens is a hover-fly. It occurs in much of Europe, and across Asia to Japan.
It is about 15-16 mm in length with a broad body. It is mainly black, but the front part of the abdomen has a broad yellow band, giving it the appearance of a bee or wasp. The two wings are transparent, as with most flies, but the leading edge is amber, and there is a brown patch on each wing.
The mimicry of bees or wasps in shape and coloration is shown by other hover-flies, and it thought that this protects against falling ...
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A cicada is any of several insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Homoptera, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. Cicadas live in temperate to tropical climates.
Cicada - Taxonomy.
There are many thousands of species of cicadas. The largest cicadas are in the genera Pomponia and Tacua. There are some 200 species in 38 genera in Australia, about 100 in the Palaearctic and exactly one species in England, the New Forest Cicada (Melampsalta mo ...
Dead white men or DWEM (an acronym standing for "Dead White European Male"), is a pejorative term used most commonly to refer to a tradition of thought and pedagogy which stresses the importance of individual European males from the past, at the expense of other forces (economic or social, for example) or groups of people (for example, non-Europeans and women).
Some of those most often included in this definition include Plato, Dante, Chri ...
Mutillidae or velvet ants, also known as cow killers, are not actually ants but a type of wasp. They get their name from the hair that grows on their back. The hair ranges from red and black to completely white. Their shell is very tough, providing protection against wasp and bee stings. The males have wings, but the females are completely wingless.
They are known for their extremely painful sting, the venom of which was once mistakenly thought to be powerful enough to kill a cow, hence the nickname "cow killers." ...
