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Sentence Examples As I pulled up in the car park, a wasp launched itself at the windscreen and kept repeatedly battering itself against the glass. There is also a parasitic wasp that attacks them but they are not effective enough to prevent the damage. I was cleaning up my flowerbeds for fall when a wasp flew up and stung me on the cheek. When a nasty wasp stung two of us, the shaman congratulated us, saying it would help mitigate the future contraction of arthritis. When a male wasp crashes into the orchid, it gets covered with orchid pollen. I wouldn't mind, as I remind my wife, but I've never in my life been stung by a wasp. I could see the anxiety on Zack's face when the wasp buzzed past a second time. The latest accident is thought to have been triggered when one of the horses was stung by a wasp, causing it to bolt. We believe effective fly control will require the utilization of parasitic wasp species native to Nebraska. The wasp waist becomes the focus as the tie dye velvet jacket is teamed with a full pleated skirt creating a feminine feel. The dress was a pale lime green, it had a wasp waist and the skirt was gathered the tiniest bit to give it some twirl. But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal. Phylogenetic relationships between six wasp and bee species, Apis mellifera, and several other similar aculeate Hymenoptera were determined. Some tropical bird species rear their young near wasp nests and depend on the insects to repel predators. The males then try to mate with the labellum or else lift it as they would a female wasp. In the chaos, the wasp slips unnoticed through the ant nest and preys on the unguarded caterpillar. As with any type of wasp, bee, or yellow jacket, please exercise care to avoid getting stung! A post-mortem examination in Spain revealed Mr Harris, who knew he was allergic to wasp stings, had died from anaphylactic shock. Such a wasp held the fly with the middle and hind legs head forward and ventral or dorsal side up. The sand wasp works hard to look after its young but the female is too busy to guard all her nest sites. Show More Sentences Some insects also hunt down spiders, including the mantis and a wasp that specializes in catching and paralyzing spiders. Female searches diligently on walls and banks for mason wasp nests which she enters, if owner is absent, to parasitise the larvae. The mason wasp is a solitary insect, and makes her cell either in bricks, mortar, stone, or any other hard substance that happens to suit her. Another solitary wasp, the mason wasp, chooses a flat surface and begins by building a series of arches out of mud or clay. Known also as the sea wasp and the marine stinger, box jellyfish have killed about 65 people in the past century. The product reportedly proved largely successful against the sting of the sea wasp, a type of box jelly. The sea wasp was dramatic proof that there were still dangerous unknown creatures to be discovered and studied. A single wasp brought an entire factory to a complete standstill after it was spotted on top of a forklift truck. One wasp species has been eliminated as a potential biocontrol because it parasitized one of the nontarget beetle species, Tewksbury explains. Given the relationship with male morphology, another question arising from these studies is what determines wasp body size. The mud dauber wasp is named for the way the females construct nests from bits of mud. So, if you see velvet ants, there is probably an underground wasp nest or bee nest somewhere close. The wasp then digs a burrow nearby using her strongly spined forelegs alternately. Two wasp stings nearly cost a Heybridge woman her life as a sharp increase of call-outs to deal with the striped pests was reported in mid-Essex. It is believed the wasp stings triggered an asthmatic response in his airways, which was coupled with an allergic reaction. It features unique footage of one of the world's smallest insects, a chalcid wasp known as a fairyfly. Ronnie Robb was walking through a paddy field in the foothills of the Himalayas when the wasp stung him. Native to North America, the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus lives in colonies of one or two queens, and usually fewer than a hundred workers. The wasp waist, achieved with the help of a corset and a tightly cinched belt, became popular at the end of the nineteenth century. The larvae of these species attract the hyperparasitic wasp Eurytoma lutea, whose larvae feed on these gall-formers. Show More Sentences This stingless bee, Trigona hypogea, carries off the youngsters left behind in newly abandoned wasp nests. For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp. When the wasp attacks the larval butterfly, it drives the ants to attack each other, turning them into incidental casualties. But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds. When ready to pounce the wasp moves swiftly when its prey is usually in a stationary position. Note that the left forewing of the recipient wasp has been bent away from her body by the biter. The cuckoo wasp has no workers and therefore lays its eggs in the nest of the red wasp where they are reared by the red wasp workers. We investigate the interaction with a specialised cuckoo wasp whose larvae kill the beewolf larvae. Should the bee return whilst the cuckoo-wasp is still present, the cuckoo wasp curls up into a tight ball. The cuckoo wasp is predatory of sand wasps and lays its larvae in the nests of hosts after killing the host larvae. Based on chemical and genetic data, I am trying to find out, whether there are different host-races in the cuckoo wasp. Potter wasp egg chambers look like tiny, rough-thrown pots about half an inch wide. In answer to the implied question, potter wasp females stock these pots with paralyzed caterpillars. Prune gall wasp out of citrus trees before September to prevent eggs from hatching. He immerses himself in the study of the gall wasp, whose North American varieties were almost completely unresearched. Each species of oak gall wasp attacks one to several host species, but none attack both white oaks and red oaks. The gall wasp, a native of Korea and Japan, entered this country in Georgia in 1974 from Asia. The wasp larvae that hatch out devour their prey from the inside out, killing the egg or caterpillar in the process. The encapsulated wasp egg then melanizes, a process most likely mediated by phenol oxidase released by crystal cells. But no, releasing this wasp out into the cold would doom it for sure, and I'm feeling too much cabin-fever kinship with her. Show More Sentences The hedgehog gall wasp can cause leaf galls with orangeish fuzz. Interestingly, the great golden digger wasp, a close relative of the cicada killer, does not have enlarged spurs and digs only with its fore-legs. Little is recorded about mulga apples beyond the fact that they have a sweet taste and that both the gall itself, and the wasp larva in its centre, are eaten. Once, he was bitten by a horrendous dog, and was also stung by a wasp. We later learn that the model, who is the heroine, is a Connecticut wasp disappointed in her arrival in the big city. Many wasp and bee species are scavengers and will forage for a wide variety of foods including fruits, ice cream, soda pop, jelly, sweet salads, and meat products. Emergence occurs after a stylopized wasp alights on flowers, and subsequent transport of first instars to the nest is phoretic, via a foraging wasp. The main causes of egg mortality are predators and a parasitoid wasp. If the female cuckoo wasp is discovered invading the Mud-dauber's nest, she rolls into a ball and uses special armour plates on her body to protect her. I had planned on wearing a gown she had made for me, but she came in my door, holding a gown of dark blue, with sliver embroidery on the neck, sleeves, hem, and wasp waist. The so-called oak apple, a round, spongy, fruitlike object about 2.5 to 5 cm in diameter, is caused by the larvae of the gall wasp Biorhiza pallida. To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter. On the afternoon of his death, a bronchial spasm caused by the wasp stings had caused him breathing difficulties, which had left his lungs hyper-inflated. A few days later the egg hatches and the wasp larva eats the cicada alive. He attended Harvard and received a Doctor of Science degree in taxonomy, and he devoted no less than 20 years of his life to researching the gall wasp. This diminutive wasp is a powerful natural enemy of the melon fly. The female wasp lays her eggs inside the developing medfly egg. When a bee or wasp stings, it releases pheromones that give off an alarm signal, which then alerts the other members of the colony about where to attack. He is coming down with an earth-shaking crash as a marsh rabbit scrambles through ashy blackness, racing around destroyed brush like a wasp gone madder. Other wasps parasitize the eggs or larvae of other insects, such as the wasp below, which is shown emerging from the egg of a hemipteran that was parasitized. Show More Sentences There was also a new type of wasp building a nest in the mango tree. The nest of this wasp he found attached to a small bush, and about the size of a man's head, being covered with a chartaceous envelope, like that of European wasps. He was said to be a healthy 6 ft 5in tall man who suffered slightly from asthma but previous to this episode never had any suspicion he was allergic to wasp stings. The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp. The Purbeck mason wasp is a large, red, black-and-yellow mason wasp which provisions its nest with the caterpillars of a tortricid moth which feeds on heathers. The item on the finding in southern Scotland of the solitary wasp illustrates how climate change may be inducing a northward drift of some species of insects. He clambered out, practically levitating over the front seat and out the door, while I glanced quickly around looking for something to swat the wasp with. After parasitizing about one-third of the larvae in a host cluster the wasp stops, apparently leaving a mark that deters further parasitism by other individuals. Australia is host to the most venomous marine creatures in the world, but the sting from a box jellyfish, or sea wasp, is definitely one to avoid. She's a paper wasp, specifically a member of the genus Polistes, the sort that builds small, open-celled, umbrella-like nests beneath eaves and picnic-shelter roofs. A young wasp grows inside the medfly, eventually killing it. The cuckoo wasp gets its name because it, too, is a nest parasite. In this study, we investigated a solitary digger wasp, the European beewolf, Philanthus triangulum, and asked whether parental behavior entails a cost to females. The behaviors that benefit your average female wasp are different from those that benefit the average male wasp, and the same holds for bluebirds or pipefish. For example, each fig species tends to be pollinated by a single fig wasp such that the loss of one should result in the loss of the other. Precise assessment of patients with allergy to bee and wasp venoms helps allergists to identify the optimal venom immunotherapy in each case. The hornworm pictured below has been parasitized by a natural enemy, the Braconid wasp. Today, the polydnaviruses associated with each wasp family, the braconids and the ichneumonoids, look quite different. Scottish curler Eve Muirhead was left facing a race against time to make the first European Tour event of the season after being stung by a wasp. In the principal species of the Solitary Wasps, the insect is smaller than the working wasp of the social kind. Show More Sentences Galls on tamboti branches are caused by the larvae of a wasp of the tanaostigmatid family, which bores into the wood to lay her eggs. The diabolo pellet is characterized by a pinched or wasp waist and a flared hollow tail or skirt. The preferred female shape was curvy with wasp waists and wide skirts over many underskirts. To give you a flavour, the tarantula hawk wasp paralyses a spider, lays eggs inside it and the larvae eat it alive. Her children prosper, folded in the aumbries, cradled in paper, smocked in the complex fabric, the house the wasp has made, her enduring book. Copidosoma floridanum is an endoparasitic, polyembryonic, social wasp that can lay its eggs in the eggs of the moth host, Trichoplusia ni. As the trees are only pollinated by the fig wasp Ceratosolen arabicus, the scientists were able to map the distances travelled by the insects. Early that summer, pupae of apple ermine moths harboring wasp larvae were rounded up in Shanxi Province, China. A two millimetre long aquatic beetle and a five millimetre long wasp species, commonly known as velvet ant, were found in Wadi Wurayah. The emerald cockroach wasp, Ampulex compressa, uses a cockroach as a host by essentially taking over its mind. Some small dermestids are found in bee or wasp nests, where they feed on old pollen stores or on dried remains of bees or wasps. One interesting example of this is the emerald cockroach wasp Ampulex compressa which uses cockroaches as hosts for its developing offspring. The debate over greater European integration took an unexpected twist yesterday with the arrival of Euro wasp in Britain. In this respect, therapy using bee and wasp venoms is considered a psychoneurological approach for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. Rare tiger beetle wasp discovered at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire. Are lone paper wasp foundresses mainly the result of sister mortality? Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies. Nonrandom provisioning by the digger wasp, Palmodes laeviventris. And watching Brendan getting stung by a tarantula hawk wasp? The second Lance Underphal Mystery, Flight of the Tarantula Hawk features the largest and deadliest wasp on the planet-a fitting metaphor for a twisted murder mystery. Show More Sentences There's also the bickering Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a young and brave Lewis Carroll in the throws of slaying the Jabberwock and a wasp with the unfortunate orange wig. The second finding was a wasp parasitizing the eggs of the bean plataspid. Among the four species of beetle found were the wasp beetle Clytus arietis, which mimics a wasp, and three species of ladybird, including the two-spot Adalia bipunctata. Several parasitic or parasitoidal insects including the fly Eucelatoria, the beetle Chrysolina, and the wasp Aphytis are raised for biological control. Ant protection of a heteropteran trophobiont against a parasitoid wasp. Examples from Classical Literature Why, he that deems himself as sure of getting the better of his neighbour as thou dost, a wasp that buzzes against the cicala. A solitary wasp, a slender creature in black and gold, quick and emotional, had made a cabin of one of the holes in the timber. We once saw a fuscipennis that was dragging a lycosid attacked by a bigger wasp of the same species. The nature of the oviposition stimulus for the wasp parasites of cockroach eggs is unknown. It is not improbable that the sting was made by a wasp which preys on the cicada. The wasp tried to oviposit into the egg case but was upset and pursued by the cockroach. Galls are abnormal growths found upon oaks, and caused by the gall wasp laying eggs in the plant. He had eased his uncle's labours by crushing the wasp, and averted his aunt's displeasure by obliterating the blowfly. It may have been playfulness, yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp. The largest structure was the smooth carton nest of a wasp, a beautiful species, pale yellowish-red with wine-colored wings. In 1860-65, the hoop-skirt held sway, and the wasp waist was typical of beauty. We somehow suspected that the demand for a return of the wasp waist had influential interests behind it. A charming Marquise dc Largillere with a wasp waist in blue velvet, elegant and haughty. Not shown in Figure 1 are some of the smaller marks that arthropods may make, including puncture holes from bee or wasp stingers or ovipositors. Pollinator fig wasp foundresses enter the figs in order to lay their eggs in, and gall, the ovules that line the inner surface of the fig. The wasp flew inside, and found that their enemy was away from home. Thus I regarded the abbe as a wasp to be crushed as speedily as possible. The virulence of this poison may be judged of from the fact that in half a minute I opened the mesh, and found a large wasp quite lifeless. But Jacob showed as much alacrity in obeying as a wasp shows in leaving a sugar-basin. King Henry leaned far forward and stared at them closely, but the Bishop of Hereford, when he saw their faces, started as though stung by a wasp. Show More Sentences The song was of a swarm of bees, and of a robber wasp who had come in to live with the bees and who was stealing all their honey. Nelly got stung by a wasp, my head began to ache, and we sat looking at one another rather dismally, when Nelly had a bright idea. I heed them no more than the wasp that buzzes round my head. The mason wasp builds its cells and lays its eggs, one in each cell. Chesterton's method in writing it is that of the digger wasp. Bolder still, the wasp has taken possession of the dwelling house. The wasp, in trembling, ghoulish ecstasy, devoured it as it appeared. Many animals are, to children, what the wasp and the rat were to gulliver. This little white spider I found in the nest of a mud dauber wasp. Shards of both films move across a flat-screen monitor, which shares its vitrine with the carcass of a wasp. But as he did not want the real story to be known, he said that about midnight a huge wasp had flown through the branches, and buzzed incessantly round him. The wasp-like resemblance was increased by the fact that the apparatus flew with a deep booming hum, exactly the sound made by a wasp at a windowpane. Find more words! 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