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  2. Wasp - Wikipedia

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    Wasps play many ecological roles. Some are predators or pollinators, whether to feed themselves or to provision their nests. Many, notably the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites, laying eggs in the nests of other wasps.

  3. Hymenoptera - Wikipedia

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    Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [2] [3] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [4] Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise ...

  4. Vespidae - Wikipedia

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    Palaeovespa florissantia, late Eocene. The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1]

  5. Tiny Wasps Are Saving Rare Island Birds from Extinction: ‘A ...

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    “Steely determination, ecological expertise and the wasps have given the buntings a much-needed lifeline.” ... The wasps were released into the forest in April 2021 with more releases since then.

  6. Insect ecology - Wikipedia

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    A giant water bug attacking a fish. Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. [1] This interaction is mostly mediated by the secretion and detection of chemicals (semiochemical) in the environment by insects. [2]

  7. Insect biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Between 950,000–1,000,000 of all described animal species are considered insects, so over 50% of all described eukaryotes (1.8 million species) are insects (see illustration). With only 950,000 known non-insects, if the actual total number of insects is 5.5 million, they may represent over 80% of the total, and with only about 20,000 new ...

  8. Hunting wasp - Wikipedia

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    Hunting wasp is not a biological taxon, but rather describes certain ecological strategies that occur within the Hymenoptera.All hunting wasps are members of the Aculeata, within the Apocrita, but not all Aculeata are hunting wasps.

  9. Study suggests wasps are capable of logical thinking, and ...

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    The wasps rapidly learned which color was "safe" and which was not.Then, the scientists introduced a new pair of colors for the insects to learn. After they had done so, the colors were intermixed ...