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Brachygastra mellifica, commonly known as the Mexican honey wasp, is a neotropical social wasp. It can be found in North America . B. mellifica is one of few wasp species that produces honey .
In its native range, the samurai wasp is able to complete up to 10 generations per year, while its primary host, brown marmorated stink bug, completes up to 2. [13] Female wasps lay on average 42 eggs, preferring to oviposit into host eggs younger than 3 days old. Males hatch first and mate with their sisters. [22]
In Polistes exclamans, equal sex ratio is obtained when only 46.3% of investment is devoted to females as female wasps are 1.16 times larger than male wasps. [16] In a study done by Strassmann, it was found that sexual investment is female biased, especially during years of high predation and when nests are generally less successful. [16]
Wasps have been modelled in jewellery since at least the nineteenth century, when diamond and emerald wasp brooches were made in gold and silver settings. [80] A fashion for wasp waisted female silhouettes with sharply cinched waistlines emphasizing the wearer's hips and bust arose repeatedly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [81] [82]
Female C. fumipennis Male C. Fumipennis. Cerceris fumipennis is distinguished by five conspicuous characteristics: It is large, about the size of common yellow jacket wasps. It has dark smoky, blue/black wings. The wasp's body is predominantly black except for a few yellow markings. It has a conspicuous, single broad creamy yellow abdominal band.
Polistes dorsalis is one of the smaller species of Polistes wasps. Wasps can have two sets of wings: fore and hind wings. This species of wasp tend to have a fore wing length of around 11–17 mm. [2] The exoskeletal plate is in the shape of a shield and located below its frons, usually black or dark brown in color with a band of yellow.
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Apocrita (wasps, bees and ants) Hymenoptera is a large order of insects , comprising the sawflies , wasps , bees , and ants . Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [ 4 ]