Excessive pollination by fig wasps from a nearby caprifig tree caused the syconium to split open. |
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Since their introduction, the beneficial wasps have helped control plant bug populations throughout the Northeast. |
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These volatiles can attract the natural enemies of these herbivores, for example, parasitoid wasps. |
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In the case of many parasitoid wasps, other compounds come from the venom the mother injects with her eggs. |
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Parasitoid wasps have proved to be an extremely useful model system for testing ideas in this area. |
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Twenty years ago, the local rabbit board assisted us to get rid of an enormous wasps nest in some railway land near our house. |
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Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths. |
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The wasps will soon start coming out from July to October, which will keep us busy. |
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Two generations emerged in late spring and midsummer, with the largest aggregation of wasps occurring in late June. |
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The timber buildings suffered from woodworm and supplied an ideal location for woodlice, spiders and wasps. |
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Stinging insects in the U.S. are bees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants. |
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Allergy shots can also be used to control allergic reactions to stinging insects, such as bees, yellow jackets, hornet and wasps. |
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And now it's time to look out for the metallic black spider wasps that come zinging into your room, and head for any screw slots they can find. |
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Bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants. |
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There's already an impressive count of spiders and beetles and bees and wasps, not to mention a whole sub-section of the local lepidoptera. |
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The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside. |
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Through typical associative learning, the wasps can learn to link this chemical scent to their food. |
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Self-taught in macrophotography and entomology, Ogawa specializes in documenting the social life of ants, wasps, and bees. |
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The weather was hot and sand wasps were busy along the trail at Oyster River. |
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A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises. |
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This is applicable especially, but not exclusively, to so-called social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites. |
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For example, ants, termites, many bees, and some wasps are social insects that form organized communities. |
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The wasps are still out there, toing and froing with bits of our table like the Berlin Airlift. |
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A variety of insects, including some beetles and moths, mimic bees and wasps. |
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Farmers make frequent releases of small numbers of these beneficial wasps to augment their existing populations of beneficials. |
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Typical nest behaviors, such as aggression and trophallaxis, were not observed among aggregating wasps. |
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European wasps have jet black feelers and fly with their legs tucked under their body. |
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These tiny wasps are important biological control agents of nuisance flies, such as the house fly and blowfly. |
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These mud dauber wasps were gathering mud balls from my leaking sprinkler so I filmed them doing it. |
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As soon as the pest man had finished his work a bolshie member of staff demanded to know what he planned to do with the wasps. |
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There was always a slight murmur, like the muted buzz of wasps in their nest. |
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Parasitic wasps in search of a caterpillar host may be drawn to their prey by the odor of its droppings. |
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We placed an insect sweep net over each aggregation, and because of the extreme inactivity of the gathered wasps, escapes were uncommon. |
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All previous reports of orchid pollination through pseudocopulation involve solitary wasps or bees. |
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The buzz of wasps and the bees in the vespiary were all the chaos she had ever experienced. |
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If bees and butterflies have apiaries and ants have formicaries, wasps have vespiaries. |
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The most commonly known varieties of vespids are the social wasps, with their conspicuous paper-like nests and sometimes aggressive behavior. |
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Sheffield also provides a location for the experimental study of honey bees and vespine wasps. |
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Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees. |
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The monotonous buzz of bees and wasps is familiar to most Southerners, and the insects' stings can be quite painful. |
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These wasps parasitize the pupal life stage of house flies and, less successfully, stable flies. |
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Firstly, I watched queen wasps and bees gently nuzzling bricks and mortar in the sunshine, looking for the weakness that provides a new home. |
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Weekly censuses continued until 10 September 2000, when new wasps were no longer eclosing and gynes were cannibalizing larvae. |
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The chalcid wasps that develop in fig tree inflorescences have often been used to study alternative reproductive behaviors. |
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A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly. |
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The wasps usually build a papyraceous envelope or sac for the enclosure of their combs. |
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Further observation revealed the wasps in other parts of the garden, catching houseflies and carrying them off towards the burrows. |
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Scientists observed virtually no springtime parasitism by wasps of the apple-feeding leaf rollers. |
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And ants are in the order Hymenoptera, which is the same order as wasps and bees. |
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They belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and ichneumons. |
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Some researchers have claimed that these wasps with hyperparasitic males pose a risk to effective biological control. |
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Members of the genus Asaphes are hyperparasitic on aphidiid wasps in aphids. |
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Insects such as ants, wasps and flies from the vicinity are attracted to these rewards and defend the plants facultatively against herbivores. |
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Paper wasps are longer, thinner, and more smooth and shiny than honey bees and have longer, narrower waists than do bees. |
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And in the case of wasps, mosquitoes, Colorado beetles and ants, I actually do my own killing. |
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Several companies sell parasitic wasps for controlling flies in and around livestock buildings and feedlots. |
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Two foreign tours later, my garden had become a cider-pond, surrounded by staggering inebriated wasps. |
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And when native wasps were fed honey for 2 to 3 days, they became more aggressive and long-lived than those given only pupae in insectaries. |
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Trichogramma wasps, tiny parasites of the moth's egg stage, are commonly reared by insectaries and sold for pest control. |
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There are nearly a thousand different species of fig wasps, each a precise, exquisite synchrony, the product of millions of years of evolution. |
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In both ants and fig wasps, male morphology and the place of mating are not completely linked. |
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The wasps are eating all the ripe plums that we didn't get around to picking over the weekend. |
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Players fizzed around the pitch like annoyed wasps, buzzing after the ball. |
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On arriving in Texas, he spent most of his research efforts studying polyembryony, first in the armadillo, and then in various parasitic wasps. |
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This result conforms to previous findings in other polygyne wasps, where nestmate queens were usually significantly related. |
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The wasps lay eggs on the hornworm and the larva burrow into the critter to feed. |
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The cuckoo wasps, as well as the other Hymenoptera previously discussed, are unable to inflict any sort of sting. |
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There are approximately 3000 species of cuckoo wasps throughout the world, including about 230 species in the United States and Canada. |
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Some species of cuckoo wasps invade the nests of wasps or bees, kill the larvae they find, and deposit their own eggs on the stored provisions. |
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The cuckoo wasp is predatory of sand wasps and lays its larvae in the nests of hosts after killing the host larvae. |
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There are at least two different families of gall wasps which come in lay their eggs and that eats the maggot. |
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Perhaps his background as a specialist on gall wasps wasn't the best start for the study of human relations. |
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Two or more years are required for gall wasps that develop in woody twig galls to reach maturity. |
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Even still, there are other perils awaiting the defenseless gall wasps inside their papery galls. |
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Aphids, grasshoppers, and gall wasps appear in the Cretaceous, as well as termites and ants in the later part of this period. |
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Female gall wasps emit chemical pheromones into the plant stem to attract males in the spring. |
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Specifically, the researchers found that male gall wasps respond to uneven chemical ratios in the plants. |
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Just how the different gall wasps stimulate oaks to form a specific kind of gall is not completely understood. |
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Socially inept, the young entymologist is delighted when he meets Clara, the only girl on campus as interested in gall wasps as he is. |
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Here he abandoned religion, raised a family, and won a reputation as a respected teacher and preeminent authority on gall wasps. |
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Only a few species are known from South America and Africa and there are no native gall wasps in Australia. |
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The stems are slightly swollen and if the gall wasps have emerged, their emergence holes are also noticeable. |
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Populations of these invertebrates have been decimated or even eradicated in areas where wasps are common. |
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Judd has studied the defensiveness of wasps throughout of the colony cycle of Polistes fuscatus. |
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Simply fill its attractive sterling silver jewelry with a citrus-scented oil to naturally repel mosquitoes, gnats, bees and wasps. |
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A woodchat's prey is mainly insects, beetles, damsel flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps and bees. |
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The model is applicable more generally in species that have dimorphic males, such as some other ants, bees, and fig wasps. |
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When possible, I marked wasps on the body with a dot of white enamel paint to allow for individual recognition. |
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Self-taught in macrophotography and entomology, he specializes in documenting the social life of ants, wasps, and bees. |
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The animals you need to look out for in the forest are snakes, bees, driver ants, and wasps. |
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Hornets and yellow jackets are paper wasps, too, but they build enclosed nests. |
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The insects most likely to cause allergic reactions are wasps, honeybees, hornets, yellow jackets and ants. |
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Parasitic wasps and fungal diseases prevent weevils from causing economic injury in most years. |
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All around me white and yellow flowering acacia trees are abuzz with bees, wasps, and colorful cetoniid beetles. |
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Another hazard that sometimes faced the picker was disturbing a nest of wasps or some other stinging creatures. |
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Bites from bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and fire ants are typically the most troublesome. |
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Most stinging wasps and bees are beneficial and should be preserved unless they pose a direct hazard to humans. |
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It didn't kill the wasps, the nest was made of paper so it absorbed the shock and just split open. |
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In many eusocial wasps, nests are founded by single females that remain alone until offspring emergence. |
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A nest of wasps gathered in my mother-in-law's garden shed and I bought a spray and killed them all. |
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Among the Caribs, the girls undergo a similar ritual, except that stinging ants rather than wasps are used. |
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But this is the time of year that a lot of people usually get stung by wasps or bees. |
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Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers. |
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Tussock moth larvae that are not killed by parasitic wasps and predators turn into brightly marked caterpillars. |
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Female wasps parasitize fruit flies by inserting their eggs into fruit fly eggs. |
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Each spider was supplied with aphids, flies, plant hoppers, and parasitoid wasps. |
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Certain types of parasitic insects, most commonly flies and wasps, thrive on other insect hosts. |
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The apparent advantage for the eggs is that, buried in the debris, they are less likely to be parasitized by wasps. |
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The wasps parasitized these new hosts, killing nineteen of every twenty flies. |
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In the garden dill attracts beneficial insects, including bees, parasitic wasps and tachinid flies. |
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He used to take nearly empty marmalade jars, top them up with hot water, and put them outside the kitchen window to attract wasps away from the house. |
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Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey. |
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The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats. |
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Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. |
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Last season, this birdhouse was inhabited by a bike of wasps. |
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It stung like a million wasps, but suddenly, my hand was back to normal. |
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Swarms of bees and wasps would also have nested in the forest. |
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There are many solitary wasps and solitary bees, and there are many grades of sociality between the solitary life and that of the beehive and the wasps' bike. |
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We are testing several species of tiny, stingless wasps, the sharpshooters' natural enemies, to see whether they can quash expanding sharpshooter populations. |
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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. |
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I was so fascinated by ants, wasps, and doodlebugs that I would have squatted in the road all day too, but unfortunately I did not inherit the slow gene. |
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I myself was stung by some wasps and went into mild anaphylactic shock. |
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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. |
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In the case of stock farming and game ranching care can be taken not to overstock and nesting areas of ground nesting bees and wasps can be protected from trampling. |
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On TV the eggs hatch and the tiny wasps eat the spider alive. |
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Nearly empty of wasps, however, are electric-car manufactories, Internet startups, and the X Games. |
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Examples include butterflies ovipositing on host plants, beetles and flies on dung pats, parasitoid wasps on insect hosts, and many insects on seeds or fruit. |
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Nonetheless, it is parasitized by wasps, flies, and nematodes. |
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Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug. |
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He studied the habits of wasps, death-watch beetles and migrating birds, and corresponded with Hans Sloane on smallpox and the noises made by unborn children in the womb. |
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Insects such as bees, wasps and hornets inject a venom into the skin when they sting us, which can cause pain, swelling and itchiness in the area. |
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South African paper wasps, or hornets as they are also called, are often encountered underneath overhangs such as the eaves of roofs but do not form very big groups. |
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The flowers of both sexes appear in late spring or early summer, and pollination occurs thanks to bees, wasps, ants, yellow jackets, and night-flying moths. |
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Parasitic wasps can be released to help control the hornworm. |
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The paper wasps that nest under the eaves are not usually picnic pests, and are great caterpillar hunters, so unless the nest is near a doorway, it's best to leave them be. |
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Asynchronous flight muscle occurs in several of the more speciose insect orders, including beetles, true bugs, wasps and bees, and dipteran flies. |
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We poked it with a stick and established that the wasps had moved out. |
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Some of these wasps are small enough to attack aphids or whiteflies, while others parasitize larger prey such as cabbage loopers, cutworms, and tomato hornworms. |
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Then as the wasps hovered towards him he quickly dived to safety. |
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An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees. |
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Widely billed as the dernier cri in armoury, the light sabre is nothing more than a flashlight powered by wasps that has to be held in both hands. |
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Both bats and martins, it turns out, prefer larger insects such as beetles, moths, flies, wasps and bees, which give a better return on their energy efforts. |
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During harvest time boxes of the golden large sweet hanepoot grapes are on sale at road edges, attracting wasps and purchasers in about equal quantity. |
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Householders are being tormented by the buzzing wasps and businesses like restaurants and pubs are being plagued by the insects with a sting in their tail. |
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My bare legs were instantly stung by nettles, and a swarm of wasps gathered around the fake flower-reeds I had to drape myself in to become Titania. |
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He began his career in the 1930s, methodically studying gall wasps. |
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Metapolybia Ducke is a small genus of neotropical paper wasps in the tribe Epiponini of the subfamily Polistinae. |
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I have used Pediobius wasps for quite effective control of Mexican bean beetle. |
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This additional service will be applicable for treatments on spiders, rats and mice, cockroaches, silverfish and bees and wasps. |
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Scott did his best to play his role as the Walter White of the wasps. |
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In the past the SPS revealed the most common pests were ants, silverfish, mice, bluebottles, wasps, pigeons, cockroaches and rats. |
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Insect prey includes chafers, dung and ground beetles, caterpillars, leatherjackets, and the nests of wasps and bumblebees. |
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The caterpillar wiggles these organs to frighten away flies and predatory wasps. |
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Paper wasps, including those in the genus Polistes and Polybia catch caterpillars to feed their young and themselves. |
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Bees are similar to one group of wasps, the sphecoid wasps, but are quite unlike other Aculeata. |
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He saw character in wasps, volition in tipitiwitchets, excitement in pine trees, order in bird migrations and glory in the heavens. |
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They are tiny parasitic wasps which lay their eggs in the whitefly scale, killing it. |
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While these wasps are common worldwide, the monograph focuses on species from the Afrotropical Region. |
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A swarm of wasps tested this understanding by building a nest in a gray zone in the casing between an interior window and a storm window. |
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Mud dauber nests are made by the female wasps and each cell contains one egg. |
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Figgy falsification Cheating can creep into the close relationship that fig wasps have with their partner fig. |
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There are previous reports of PAA being attractive to other insects, including several noctuid moths and sphecoid and scoliodid wasps. |
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Guild structure in solitary hunting spider wasps compared with null predictions. |
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Others such as some bombyliid flies, leucospid and mutillid wasps, and parasitic bees prey on larvae of flower-visiting bees and wasps. |
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Paper wasps are colorful insects that chew up tiny bits of wood or dried plant stalks. |
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Sheep, as well as those paper wasps, appear to have some special face skills. |
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Once he finally tracks down, he follows them on a raid and devour creatures in their path, including scorpion, wasps and a bush cricket. |
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The roaches, the flies, the mosquitoes, silverfish, fleas and wasps, bed bugs, ants, they arrived on time and the meeting was called to order. |
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Nearly all were Korean and Chinese Ageniaspis fuscicollis wasps, parasites of the apple ermine moth, received during the summer. |
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Out came old Teenie, buzzing mad as a whole nest of wasps. Muttered awfulnesses came from her great padded bonnet. |
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No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung. |
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And in 1980, a Florida Commuter Airlines flight with wasps in its pitot tubes crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 34 people. |
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This mention of fruit makes me recall that September brings out the wasps, getting drowsier as the month goes on. |
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Polistes wasps show interference competition with other insects for Kermes scale insect secretions. |
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A new subfamily of ichneumon wasps from the Upper Cretaceous of the Russian Far East. |
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Both stinkbugs and wasps have to be very close to a caterpillar to see it, but stinkbugs must be even closer. |
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A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again. |
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In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps. |
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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. |
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Tiny flowers are perfect for attracting delicate beneficials like chalcid wasps and hover flies, whose larvae devour aphids. |
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Indian chalcid wasps of the genus Dirhinus parasitic on synanthropic and other Diptera. |
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Most oak gall wasps have 2 generations per year, with alternating sexual and asexual generations. |
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The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight. |
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They found little significant difference between the two groups, aside from a lower percentage of female offspring from diapaused wasps than from non-diapaused ones. |
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Of particular interest was the finding that ants are a sister group to the Apoidea, a major group within Hymenoptera that includes bees and sphecid wasps. |
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Digger wasps of the family Philanthus, also known as 'beewolves', harness beneficial bacteria to manufacture a cocktail of drugs that protect its larvae from infection. |
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Yellowjackets and paper wasps are beneficial insects in that they are predators of house flies and insect pests that damage landscape trees and crops. |
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To assess the more mobile insect groups, such as syrphids, tachinids, lacewings and wasps, the number of visitors to each plant was observed and recorded for 2 minutes. |
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The sections of the text are divided into Bristletails, Cockroaches, Crickets, Earwigs, Booklice, Bugs, Beetles, Moths and butterflies, Ants, bees and wasps, and Flies. |
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They answer distress calls from frightened residents whose houses have become home to a family of wasps, usually in an airbrick or the eaves of the roof. |
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Honey bees and wasps are important supplemental foods in Eurasia from the furthest west of their range, in Spain, to the furthest east, in Hokkaido. |
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The diet of an insectivorous bat may span a wide range of species, including flies, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, termites, bees, wasps, mayflies and caddisflies. |
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In addition to direct threats from alien ungulates, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa silverswords may face serious indirect threats from alien insects, especially ants and wasps. |
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Females of Polistes Latreille, 1802 paper wasps have the options of independent or cooperative breeding, and usurpation in a few species in temperate climates. |
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Mint oil is also used as an environmentally friendly insecticide for its ability to kill some common pests such as wasps, hornets, ants, and cockroaches. |
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Having disturbed a vespiary, one cannot hope to remain untouched by wasps. |
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Before his invention, mud dauber wasps nested in nozzle orifices of overhead sprinklers when the irrigation system was not in operation, impeding water flow. |
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However, there are some commonalities as well, with flies, thrips, chalcid wasps, coccid bugs, and a few beetles and moths inducing gall formation. |
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Mr Williams hopes the latest project will enhance the survival prospects of the dunes' rarest inhabitants such as petalwort, sand wasps and mining bees. |
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