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The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1] Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative ...
Wasps have appeared in literature from Classical times, as the eponymous chorus of old men in Aristophanes' 422 BC comedy The Wasps, and in science fiction from H. G. Wells's 1904 novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, featuring giant wasps with three-inch-long stings. The name 'Wasp' has been used for many warships and other ...
Whedon wanted Zooey Deschanel to play the role of Wasp. [2] In 2013, actresses Jessica Chastain, Emma Stone, Rashida Jones and Bryce Dallas Howard were in talks to play the female lead in the then-upcoming Ant-Man film. [3] In February 2014, Evangeline Lilly was rumored to be cast in the role while Edgar Wright was still slated to direct.
Wasp, a 1980 album by Shaun Cassidy "W.A.S.P.", a song from the Dayglo Abortions album, Two Dogs Fucking; The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors from the album L.A. Woman; EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
Vespoidea is a superfamily of wasps in the order Hymenoptera. Vespoidea includes wasps with a large variety of lifestyles including eusocial, social, and solitary habits, predators, scavengers, parasitoids, and some herbivores.
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.
Wasp's first appearance in Tales to Astonish #44 (June 1963). Art by Jack Kirby and Don Heck.. Janet van Dyne debuted in Tales to Astonish #44 (plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by H. E. Huntley, and drawn by Jack Kirby, June 1963) as Henry "Hank" Pym's partner, becoming the Wasp to avenge the death of her father, scientist Vernon van Dyne. [6]
The Wasps (Classical Greek: Σφῆκες, romanized: Sphēkes) is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens ' short-lived respite from the Peloponnesian War .