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  2. Megaphragma mymaripenne - Wikipedia

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    Researchers believe the wasp can survive without nuclei because of its short lifespan; the proteins manufactured during the pupal stage last the animal long enough to complete its life journey. [ 4 ] Despite their reduced nervous systems, adult wasps can fly, feed, and locate hosts to lay their eggs. [ 2 ]

  3. Wasp - Wikipedia

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    [9] [a] For example, almost every one of some 1000 species of tropical fig trees has its own specific fig wasp (Chalcidoidea) that has co-evolved with it and pollinates it. [10] Many wasp species are parasitoids; the females deposit eggs on or in a host arthropod on which the larvae then feed. Some larvae start off as parasitoids, but convert ...

  4. Polistes fuscatus - Wikipedia

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    The length of P. fuscatus often ranges between 15 and 21 mm (0.59 and 0.83 in). [8] The fore wing length ranges between 11.5 and 17.0 mm (0.45 and 0.67 in); in general, the fore wing of males is above 13.0 mm (0.51 in), whereas females have a fore wing length above 11.0 mm (0.43 in). [9]

  5. Vespula vulgaris - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Zoological specimen - Wikipedia

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    A pinned wasp. The dried insect is under attack from pests and this drawer will have to be frozen to contain the problem. Most hard-bodied insect specimens and some other hard-bodied invertebrates such as certain Arachnida, are preserved as pinned specimens.

  7. Vespidae - Wikipedia

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    Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. In temperate social species, colonies usually last only one year, dying at the onset of winter.

  8. Hymenoptera - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Vespula pensylvanica - Wikipedia

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    Vespula pensylvanica, the western yellowjacket, is a Nearctic species of wasp in the genus Vespula. [1] [2] It is native to regions of North America, largely in areas with northern temperate climates.