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A person stung by a wasp should be monitored for a potential allergic reaction, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wash the site with soapy water and remove the ...
Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids , they lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods , sooner or later causing the death of these hosts .
The honey buzzard attacks the nests of social hymenopterans, eating wasp larvae; it is the only known predator of the dangerous [64] Asian giant hornet or "yak-killer" (Vespa mandarinia). [65] Likewise, roadrunners are the only real predators of tarantula hawk wasps. [66]
Megarhyssa macrurus, also known as the long-tailed giant ichneumonid wasp [1] or long-tailed giant ichneumon wasp, [2] is a species of large ichneumon wasp. [3] It is a parasitoid, notable for its extremely long ovipositor which it uses to deposit an egg into a tunnel in dead wood bored by its host, the larva of a similarly large species of horntail.
Face of a southern yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)Yellowjackets may be confused with other wasps, such as hornets and paper wasps such as Polistes dominula.A typical yellowjacket worker is about 12 mm (0.47 in) long, with alternating bands on the abdomen; the queen is larger, about 19 mm (0.75 in) long (the different patterns on their abdomens help separate various species).
The DNA of the wasp actually contains portions that are the templates for the components of the viral particles and they are assembled in an organ in the female's abdomen known as the calyx. [14] A 2009 study has traced the origins of these templates to a 100-million-year-old viral infection whose alterations to its host DNA provided the ...
Dryocosmus minusculus is an abundant species of cynipid wasp that produces galls on oak trees in California in North America. [1] [2] Commonly known as the pumpkin gall wasp, the wasp oviposits on the leaves of Quercus agrifolia, Quercus wislizenii, and Quercus kelloggii. In spring and summer, larvae induce round galls reaching 1 mm across.
Copidosoma has over 200 species, according to the Natural History Museum of London's Universal Chalcidoidea Database. [1] Among these is Copidosoma floridanum, known for having the largest recorded brood of any parasitoidal insect, at 3,055 individuals, [2] and for having its genome sequenced by the Human Genome Sequencing Center as part of the i5K project.