Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth, making them ...

Within Hymenoptera the Hymenoptera team I am principal curator of Ichneumonoidea and various groups which used to be classified as Vespoidea, with the Ichneumonidae my main area of interest. My ...

The Museum houses one of the largest collections of Hymenoptera in the world. The collection is of global cultural, scientific and historic significance and comprises of approximately 3.5 million ...

Hymenoptera have a haplodiploid sex determination ... Thrips are small haplodiploid insects in the order Thysanoptera (Crespi et al. 1992). Of about 5,000 species, about 300 form nests in plants ...

The Entomology Collection of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History was founded in the early 1900’s and contains approximately 1,400,000 insects and 60,000 arachnids. It includes ...