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Hymenoptera   Listen
Hymenoptera

noun
1.
An order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc..  Synonym: order Hymenoptera.



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"Hymenoptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... short thoracic legs and a variable number of pairs of abdominal pro-legs, universal among the moths and butterflies forming the great order Lepidoptera, and usual among the saw-flies, which belong to the Hymenoptera. The vast majority of caterpillars feed on the leaves of plants and their long worm-like bodies with the series of paired pro-legs, are excellently adapted for their habit of clinging to twigs, and crawling along shoots or the edges of leaves as they ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter
... would be the Red Ant. Although this fly belongs to the order Hymenoptera, it can be used when many of the Diptera order are on the water, such as Cowdung, Blue bottle, Bee, etc. This family all have flat wings and make an entirely different appearance than the aforementioned ...
— How to Tie Flies • E. C. Gregg
... singular fact concerning the manners of one of the hymenoptera, a wasp, a Cerceris, in whose nest Dufour had found small coleoptera of the genus Buprestis, which, under all the appearances of death, retained intact for an incredible time their sumptuous costume, gleaming with gold, copper, and emerald, while the tissues remained perfectly fresh. ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros


Words linked to "Hymenoptera" :   family Tenthredinidae, Formicidae, Vespidae, class Hexapoda, Apoidea, Tenthredinidae, superfamily Sphecoidea, hymenopteron, animal order, family Formicidae, Sphecoidea, family Chalcididae, family Ichneumonidae, hymenopterous insect, Insecta, superfamily Apoidea, family Cynipidae, family Chalcidae, family Vespidae, Cynipidae, hymenopter, Chalcidae, hymenopterous, class Insecta, Ichneumonidae, Chalcididae, Hexapoda


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