the wasps, having evolved from wasp ancestors. Wasps that are members of the clade Aculeata can sting their prey. The most commonly known wasps, such...
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (redirect from WASPs)
Historically or most consistently, WASPs are of British descent, though the definition of WASP varies in this respect. WASPs have dominated American society...
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Challenge Cup. Wasps most recent trophy was the 2007–08 Premiership. In 2021–22 Premiership Rugby, their last completed season, Wasps finished 9th. Lee...
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Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
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Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the...
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Search for Planets (WASP), a British group searching for extra-solar planets Wasps FC, an amateur English rugby union club Wasps Ladies, an English women's...
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Tarantula hawk (redirect from Tarantula hawk wasps)
than Europe and Antarctica. These wasps grow up to 6.5 centimetres (2+1⁄2 in) long, making them among the largest of wasps, and have blue-black bodies and...
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Paper wasps are vespid wasps and typically refers to members of the vespid subfamily Polistinae, though it often colloquially includes members of the subfamilies...
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Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside figs. Some are pollinators but others simply feed off the plant...
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other wasps, hyperparasitoids.[page needed] Most species of gall wasps live as gall-formers on oaks. One of the best-known is the common oak gall wasp (Cynips...
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Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids...
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Aristophanes: The Wasps D. MacDowell, Oxford University Press 1971, p. 10 Wasps lines 1060–70 The Wasps lines 105–95 Aristophanes: Wasps D. MacDowell (ed)...
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Mud dauber (redirect from Mud Dauber Wasp)
referred to as "potter wasps". Mud daubers belong to different families and are variable in appearance. Most are long, slender wasps about 1 inch (25 mm)...
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Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of...
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Hymenoptera (redirect from Black wasp)
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described...
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Vespidae (redirect from Vespid wasp)
of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. Each...
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Hornet (redirect from Vespa (wasp))
Provespa, is referred to as "night wasps" or "night hornets", though they are not true hornets. Some other large wasps are sometimes referred to as hornets...
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name digger wasp is a broad term which may refer to any member of the parasitoidal wasp families: Crabronidae, including Bembix sand wasps and Philanthus...
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February 25, 2023 – via Google Books. Fear of wasps is known as spheksophobia. Individuals who fear wasps often fear stings, pain, bees, or flying insects...
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Mason wasp is a common name that can refer to: potter wasps and mason wasps in the subfamily Eumeninae in the family Vespidae, or Mud daubers in the...
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America for predatory social wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula. Members of these genera are known simply as "wasps" in other English-speaking...
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attack wasps including D. media. It produces red-yellow fruiting bodies on long white or yellow stalks. It is not known if this fungus kills living wasps or...
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Sphecidae (redirect from Sphecoid wasps)
a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly...
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Evaniidae (redirect from Ensign wasp)
is a family of parasitoid wasps also known as ensign wasps, nightshade wasps, hatchet wasps, or cockroach egg parasitoid wasps. They number around 20 extant...
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Hymenoptera training (redirect from Sniffer wasps)
Scientists recruit wasps for war on terror. USA Today. 26 December 2005. Accessed 6 October 2011. Appel, Adrianne. Drug-Sniffing Wasps May Sting Crooks...
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Ichneumonidae (redirect from Scorpion wasp)
Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera...
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A sand wasp is a wasp of one of the following groups: Ammophila, a narrow-waisted genus of hunting wasps that often nests in sandy soil Bembicini, a tribe...
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(April 7, 1995). "Wasps' Nests". Entertainment Weekly. p. 92. Retrieved May 15, 2017. Sullivan, Caroline (July 14, 1995). "The 6ths: Wasps' Nests (Factory...
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Aculeata (redirect from Stinging wasps)
Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is...
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Vespula germanica (redirect from German Wasp)
Africa, and New Zealand. German wasps are part of the family Vespidae and are sometimes mistakenly referred to as paper wasps because they build grey paper...
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