This page displays the twelve Hymenoptera records currently available within the Entophiles database. Select one of the thumbnail photographs of ants, bees and wasps below to access the descriptive record for this insect.
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The Hymenoptera are exceedingly important insects from mans point of view for three main reasons, Firstly they include the Bees who as everybody knows make Honey and Wax, secondly because a lot of the parasites and the Ants are important enemies of crop pests, ants consume huge numbers of lepidopteran caterpillars as...
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Hexapoda (including Insecta) > Hymenoptera ... web-spinning pine-sawfly ... Acantholyda hieroglyphica (Christ)
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Herbivory is common among the primitive Hymenoptera (suborder Symphyta), in the gall wasps (Cynipidae), and in some of the ants and bees.   Most other Hymenoptera are predatory or parasitic.   The large hunting wasps are agile predators that catch and paralyze insects (or spiders) as food for their offspring.
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Hymenopterans, the "membrane-winged" insects, include bees, ants, and a large number of other insect taxa collectively referred to as wasps. The Hymenoptera include famous examples of social insects, such as honeybees and true ants;
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Order Hymenoptera: Bees, Ants, and Wasps ... Taxonomic tree of Hymenoptera families ... ; Anthophoridae; (Cuckoo & ; Carpenter Bees)
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Hymenoptera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν (hum...
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Carpenter, J. M., and W. C. Wheeler. 1999. Towards simultaneous analysis of morphological and molecular data in Hymenoptera. Zoologica Scripta 28(1-2):251-260. ... The Social Insects Web (American Museum of Natural History)
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Without these parasites that limit the growth of insect populations, pests would overtake most crops. The urban pests of the order Hymenoptera are the stinging insects. Alt ...
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Order Hymenoptera - Sawflies, Wasps, Ants & Bees ... Minute to moderate-sized insects, usually with two pairs of membranous wings, the front pair much larger than the hind pair. The wings are coupled together by a row of small hooks on the front edge of the hindwing.
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