This valuable study uses a massive and long-term experimental data set to provide solid evidence on how tree diversity affects host-parasitoid communities of insects in forests. The work will be of ...

KEY WORDS: Crabronidae; Spilomena; apoid wasps; eusociality; partitioning; homoplasy criterion; social behavior; silk spinnerets The parsimony analyses under equal or implied weighting showed ...

1 Department of Animal Production, School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. 2 Department of Environmental Sciences, Higher Institute of Agriculture ...

THE nest illustrated in Fig. 1 was removed from one of the ends of the top horizontal framework of an electricity transmission tower near Colenso, Natal, in April, 1933. These towers are some ...

Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi said the invertebrates belong to family of Digger Wasps Also In This Package Dubai seizes 200 animal, plant species banned for trade Sharjah Safari adds more than 60 ...

The drone of the cicada is an indelible part of the summer soundtrack of Michigan, but for one intimidating looking insect, this sound is like a dinner bell. The cicada killer wasp is the largest wasp ...

Associations with microbial symbionts enable insects to thrive on nutritionally unbalanced diets or in adverse environmental conditions (Baumann, 2005; Douglas, 2015). These beneficial symbionts can ...

Biosurveillance takes advantage of the foraging effort of a predatory wasp Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). This native, solitary, ground-nesting hunting wasp hunts adult buprestid ...

Size Long, slender wasps. Usually 1 inch long. Small, ant-sized insects. Usually 4-15 millimeters in length. Nests Long and tubelike. Built from a mixture of mud and saliva. Expansive and complex.

The closest living wasp relative to bees is most certainly a wasp from the Crabronidae family, probably something like the aphid wasp, such as Psenulus—a global genus of around 160 species. As the ...

This catalogue lists the type specimens of Crabronidae and Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (MZUSP). The collection includes a ...

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