Insects
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Africanized Bees 101: What Turned Honey Bees Into Killers?
Apis mellifera scutellata, or Africanized honey bees as they are known, are native to the tropical savanna country of eastern…
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Parasitic Wasps 101: Nature’s Biological Control Weapons
The Parasitica (Parasitic Wasps) is a huge group of generally small insects, most of which are parasites or hyperparasites. In…
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Leaf Cutter Ants 101: The Lovable Little Fungus Farmers
Ants are among the most delightful, complex and fascinating insects in the world. They are all social and live in…
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Solitary Wasps 101: The Bee Wolf and Other Wonders
The main difference between Bees and Wasps is that Bees feed their larvae on ‘honey’ – a mixture of pollen…
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Solitary Bees 101: The Lonely World Of The Flower Bee
Bees have probably been around since just after the first flowering plants appeared – and fossils date back to the…
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Apidae: A Family Of Social & Sometimes Stingless Bees
Not all the Apidae are social. Those that are not social, which is most of them, are called Solitary Bees.…
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Vespidae: The Big, Social Family Of The Paper Wasps
All the social wasps are gathered within the family Vespidae, though not all the genera or species within the Vespidae…
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Sawfly 101: The World Of Wood Wasps & Horntails
The World Of Wood Wasps & Horntails The Sawflies (Suborder Symphyta) are members of the great order, Hymenoptera. However unlike…
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Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, Wasps and Ichnuemonids
The Hymenoptera, with over 130,000 named species, are a contender for the second largest order of insects in the world…
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Key to the Orders of Insects:- Insect Identification Key
Key to the orders of insects:- adapted from Harold Oldroyd 1958. First a few words about keys. According to the…
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