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  2. Insect hotel - Wikipedia

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    Solitary bees, and solitary wasps do not live within a hive with a queen. Various species of solitary bees have different needs. The vast majority of these nest in tunnels dug in bare soil, but carpenter, mason, and leaf cutter bees nest in a tube. Only the latter two types nest in ready-made tubes in a bee hotel.

  3. Bee hotel - Wikipedia

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    Bee hotels are a type of insect hotel for solitary pollinator bees, or wasps, providing them rest and shelter. [1] Typically, these bees would nest in hollow plant stems, holes in dead wood, or other natural cavities; a bee hotel attempts to mimic this structure by using a bunch of hollow reeds or holes drilled in wood, among other methods. [1]

  4. Structures built by animals - Wikipedia

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    A so-called "cathedral" mound produced by a termite colony. Structures built by non-human animals, often called animal architecture, [1] are common in many species. Examples of animal structures include termite mounds, ant hills, wasp and beehives, burrow complexes, beaver dams, elaborate nests of birds, and webs of spiders.

  5. It’s a ‘big year for wasps’ in California. Here’s why and how ...

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    The winged insects fall into the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees and ants. Wasps come in a variety of colors — from yellow and black to red and blue — and are split into two primary ...

  6. Characteristics of common wasps and bees - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Necrophoresis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 19 Crops That Would Disappear Without Bees - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. 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.