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Bees (Family: Apidae) Wasps (Family: Vespidae) Name Western honey bee Bumblebee Paper wasp Yellowjacket Bald-faced hornet European hornet Asian hornet; Image Colors Amber to brown translucent alternating with black stripes. [a] Exact pattern and colouration varies depending on strain/breed.
These species bear a variety of names, including Australian native honey bees, native bees, sugar-bag bees, and sweat bees (because they land on people's skin to collect sweat). [115] The various stingless species look quite similar, with the two most common species, Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis , displaying the greatest ...
The wasps, bees, and ants together make up the suborder (and clade) Apocrita, characterized by a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments called a wasp-waist , also involving the fusion of the first abdominal segment to the thorax. Also, the larvae of all Apocrita lack legs, prolegs, or ocelli.
Bees collecting pollen from sunflowers treated with Gaucho exhibited confused and nervous behavior; thus, the phenomenon was initially termed the "mad bee disease" — the bees, according to ...
A black garden ant (Lasius niger) engaging in necrophoresis. Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area.
Females can build their own nests, but often refurbish nests abandoned by other wasps and bees, [4] particularly those of Sceliphron caementarium, [5] removing any spiders captured by S. caementarium and the larva, replacing it with an egg of its own and freshly caught spiders. [3] They go through multiple generations in a year. [2]
B. terrestris bees exhibit alloethism, which is where different sized bees perform different tasks. This kind of behavior can be seen most often in foraging activities. Larger bees are more often found foraging outside the nest and will return to the nest with larger amounts of nectar and pollen.
Bees that follow a waggle dance can successfully forage without decoding the dance language information in several ways: [4] Dance follower may use olfactory information from the dancer and find either the same resource or a different one with a similar scent. Following a dance may simply trigger foraging behavior.