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Excessive pollination by fig wasps from a nearby caprifig tree caused the syconium to split open.
Since their introduction, the beneficial wasps have helped control plant bug populations throughout the Northeast.
These volatiles can attract the natural enemies of these herbivores, for example, parasitoid wasps.
In the case of many parasitoid wasps, other compounds come from the venom the mother injects with her eggs.
Parasitoid wasps have proved to be an extremely useful model system for testing ideas in this area.
Twenty years ago, the local rabbit board assisted us to get rid of an enormous wasps nest in some railway land near our house.
Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths.
The wasps will soon start coming out from July to October, which will keep us busy.
Two generations emerged in late spring and midsummer, with the largest aggregation of wasps occurring in late June.
The timber buildings suffered from woodworm and supplied an ideal location for woodlice, spiders and wasps.
Stinging insects in the U.S. are bees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants.
Allergy shots can also be used to control allergic reactions to stinging insects, such as bees, yellow jackets, hornet and wasps.
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.
Bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants.
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.
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.
Through typical associative learning, the wasps can learn to link this chemical scent to their food.
Self-taught in macrophotography and entomology, Ogawa specializes in documenting the social life of ants, wasps, and bees.
The weather was hot and sand wasps were busy along the trail at Oyster River.
A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These widely-spreading trees are favourites with the black wasps, to which they attach their pensile nests.
The pirate-wasp was a carnivore, but this was the season when the wasps raised young.
A small colony of social wasps built their comb under the refectory table of the village Mission-house.
When the bottles are filled with insects, the liquor must be poured into another vial, and the wasps crushed on the ground.
The wasps were there, dozens of them, and they had built a nest in the upper corner of the room.
Among the Vespoid families of fossorial wasps, the Pompilidae are the most important.
He did so, and thereby witnessed the assaults of the wasps at the glue-pot.
Among the wasps that first make the nest and then provision the larder, Astata bicolor is one of the most interesting.
Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea.
I've been stung before by local black-and-white wasps called the bald-faced hornets.
Drones, bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies knock awkwardly against the walls of the hive in their flight.
In the previous lesson I spoke of vespa wasps that make homes of paper.
Deprived of slavery, they are like wasps that have lost their stings.
Brown was alone with the wasps, and they were lively company.
He hunted, too, for deep-boring grubs under the bark of the trees, and robbed the wasps of their new broods.
Protect ripening peaches and nectarines from birds, earwigs and early wasps.
The aculeate wasps of New Caledonia, with natural history notes.
Armadillos like to eat worms, beetles, bees, wasps, and also vegetables.
Occurrence of fig wasps in Ficus caria and F microcarpa in Hatay, Turkey.
Most of the exotic fig tree species grown in southern Africa and elsewhere have none of their associated fig wasps present, and consequently cannot reproduce.
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