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Apocrita (wasps, bees and ants) Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [2][3] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [4] Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts ...
Honeypot ant. Myrmecocystus honeypot ants, showing the repletes or plerergates, their abdomens swollen to store honey, above ordinary workers. Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, [ 1 ]plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously.
More careful estimates made in 2022 which take into account regional variations puts the global ant contribution at 12 megatons of dry carbon, which is about 20% of the total human contribution, but greater than that of the wild birds and mammals combined. This study also puts a conservative estimate of the ants at about 20 × 10 15 (20 ...
Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite, and some bee species. [1] It is also observed in some fly species, such as Rhamphomyia longicauda. During the flight, virgin queens mate with males and then land to start a new colony, or, in the case of honey bees, continue the succession of an existing hived colony ...
Coordinates: 52°47′20.1″N 1°34′19.9″W. The Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS) is a British society dedicated to recording bees, wasps and ants. The recording of these insects is most important to monitor the health of an ecosystem, and in the past, studies of British ants were carried out by such notable myrmecologists as ...
Andrena bucephala, large-headed mining bee. Andrena chrysosceles, hawthorn mining bee. Andrena cineraria, ashy mining bee. Andrena clarkella, Clarke's mining bee. Andrena coitana, small-flecked mining bee. Andrena congruens, long-fringed mining bee. Andrena denticulata, grey-banded mining bee.
Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), [ 1 ][ 2 ] comprising the tribe Meliponini[ 3 ][ 4 ] (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). [ 5 ] They belong in the family Apidae (subfamily Apinae), and are closely related to ...
Insects are thought to have evolved from a group of crustaceans. [2] The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period one lineage of insects evolved flight, the first animals to do so. [1] The oldest insect fossil has been proposed to be Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated to be 400 million years old, but the ...