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Detail of Botticelli's Venus and Mars, 1485, with a wasp's nest on right, probably a symbol of the Vespucci family (Italian vespa, wasp) who commissioned the painting. [85] Wasp (1957) is a science fiction book by the English writer Eric Frank Russell; it is generally considered Russell's best novel. [86]
The body ranges from 20 to 40 mm in length. The head, legs, and antenna are black and orange-yellow in colour, with dark brown to black thorax and eyes. The wings are orange with darkened bases and apices, and the abdomen is orange with the first segment and a band on the second segment black. [2]
Female X. vesparum are markedly different from their male counterparts. They display a high degree of neoteny, and are permanent endoparasites of their hosts.They reside in the wasp's body cavity and never develop mouthparts, legs, eyes or wings, and their only form of genitalia is the ventral opening where males can inseminate them, as well as being the point of larval escape. [1]
Vespula vulgaris, known as the common wasp, is a species found in regions that include the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, India, China, New Zealand [1] and Australia. It is sometimes known in English as the European wasp, but the same name is used for the species Vespula germanica or German wasp.
A wasp's nest is a complex structure that is a specialized nursery for all aerial-nest-building wasp species. These nests are easily identifiable — most of us have seen one at one time or ...
[2] Yellowjackets have lance-like stingers with small barbs, and typically sting repeatedly, [1] though occasionally a stinger becomes lodged and pulls free of the wasp's body; the venom, like most bee and wasp venoms, is primarily dangerous to only those humans who are allergic or are stung many times. All species have yellow or white on their ...
Paper wasp nests are specialized nurseries full of dead bugs, wasp larvae, and hexagon comb structures.
In the ichneumon wasp genus Megarhyssa, the females have a slender ovipositor (terebra) several inches long that is used to drill into the wood of tree trunks. [1] These wasps are parasitic in the larval stage on the larvae of horntail wasps, hence the egg must be deposited directly into the host's body as it is feeding.