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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



... unwilling host, sapping his strength, but cunningly avoiding his vitals, until they were full-fed. As they turned to pupae he would die, and from caterpillar, or may be chrysalis, there would then issue, in place of gorgeous butterfly, a host of dingy hymenoptera. So would the race of ichneumons ...
— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" - Studies of Animal life and Character • Douglas English

... HYMENOPTERA. Mason Wasp.—In Ceylon as in all other countries, the order of hymenopterous insects arrests us less by the beauty of their forms than the marvels of their sagacity and the achievements of their instinct. A fossorial wasp of the family of Sphegidae,[1] which is distinguished by its metallic ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... former fertilise the ova, and the fertilised ova develop only into females. The chief difference in this case then is that the reduction in the male to the N or simplex condition takes place in two stages, one in the parthenogenetic ovum, one in the gametes of the mature male. In Hymenoptera and in Daphnia, etc., the whole reduction takes place in the parthenogenetic ovum, and in the mature male, though reduction divisions occur, no separation of chromosomes takes place: at the first division ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



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



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