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Horntail or wood wasp are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of wood-eating sawfly.The common name "horntail" derives from the stout, spine-like structure at the end of the adult's abdomen which is present in both sexes.
Social wasp colonies are started from scratch each spring by a queen who survives through the winter. Each colony can have up to 5,000 individual insects. Yellowjackets are among the most common ...
Sirex is a genus of wasps in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. Their bodies are black with a dark blue or green metallic reflection with some species having reddish-brown portions. Their bodies are black with a dark blue or green metallic reflection with some species having reddish-brown portions.
A potter wasp nest on a brick wall in coastal South Carolina. Eumenine wasps are diverse in nest building. The different species may either use existing cavities (such as beetle tunnels in wood, abandoned nests of other Hymenoptera, or even man-made holes like old nail holes and screw shafts on electronic devices) that they modify in several degrees, or they construct their own either ...
However, the wasp mainly infests weakened trees; only when the population is high does the insect also attack intact and healthy trees. [16] [17] Because the wasp larvae and the fungus need living wood, the European woodwasp does not infest dry or dead timber. However, wasps may hatch from processed wood which was already infested.
Synoeca septentrionalis is one of five species of wasps in the genus Synoeca. [1] It is a swarm-founding wasp that is also eusocial, [2] exhibiting complicated nest structure and defense mechanisms [3] and a colony cycle including a pre-emergence phase and a post-emergence phase. [4]
Like most paper wasp nests, the nests of P. major major consist of a gray or papery brown material made by chewing wood fashioned into an open comb shape, containing multiple cells for the queen's brood. [citation needed] A central petiole anchors the nest. [5] One can locate the nests under the roofs, rims, and window frames of houses.
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