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Winged female and wingless male. Blastophaga psenes is a wasp species in the genus Blastophaga. It pollinates the common fig Ficus carica and the closely related Ficus palmata. [3] These wasps breed in figs without the need for a colony or nest, and the adults live for only a few days or weeks. [4]
Ammophila urnaria feeds on nectar and can often be seen on the flower heads of sorrel or onion. [2] The breeding season is in summer. The female wasp digs a succession of burrows in sandy soil, provisioning each burrow with one or more paralysed caterpillars, lays an egg on the first caterpillar in each and seals the hole.
Wasps have been modelled in jewellery since at least the nineteenth century, when diamond and emerald wasp brooches were made in gold and silver settings. [80] A fashion for wasp waisted female silhouettes with sharply cinched waistlines emphasizing the wearer's hips and bust arose repeatedly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [81] [82]
However, wasps of P. mellyi produce less rich secretions from their Dufour's glands than wasps of P. jacobsoni, and thus do not produce ant guards using this secretion. [7] A female of Parischnogaster mellyi attending a larva. Hatching ratio of genders is approximately one-to-one, and average brood size in a one-female nest is 4.68 ...
The female wasp lays one or occasionally two eggs on the underside of a nymph of its host, between the third pair of legs. [6] Even if two eggs are laid beneath a nymph, only one adult wasp will result, so T. radiata is a solitary parasitoid. One adult female T. radiata can lay up to 300 eggs in her life.
Like many apoid wasps, C. fumipennis females mass provision for their cells before laying an egg in them. Adult females provision their cells with beetles of the family Buprestidae. When hunting for buprestid prey, the maximum foraging range of the wasp is estimated at 2 km with an estimated average flight distance of 750 meters from the nest.
The cost of reproductive suppression to the individual is lowest at the ... paper wasps and ... the breeding female disrupts the ovulatory cycle and prevents mating ...
The wasps of this species generally nest on the sides of rocks in meadows in the mountains or in alpine areas consisting of Pinus sylvestris and Larix decidua. [1] [10] The colonies inhabiting these nests are both small and rare, as the colony cycle for the wasp is truncated to only four months. On average, the colonies consist of about 30 ...