| 单词 | wasp |
| 例句 | A wasp imported from Japan established complete control of an insect attacking eastern apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The warm air vibrated with the thrum of wasps and the drone of lawn mowers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But I was not afraid of spiders, snakes, and wasps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He tried to think of the German word for wasp but couldn’t. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The wasp landed squarely on it now, almost embracing it with its black legs as it delivered another sting to the belly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are many wasps, and flies as well, whose very existence depends on the destruction of the eggs or larvae of other insects through parasitism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The wasp became widely established in this area and is generally credited by entomologists with an important role in bringing the beetle under control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was as if he whacked a wasps’ nest with a stick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That night, as I drift off to sleep, I wonder about the wasp, if there’s an insect heaven, if it’s the same as human heaven. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Why did some cocoons produce flies or wasps instead of moths? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z You look around for the enterprises that we engage in collectively and unconsciously, the things we build like wasp nests, individually unaware of what we are doing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that he wasn’t scared when he was standing there and the wasps were stinging him and hurting him and he was watching me run away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It is a compulsive, essentially neurotic kind of behavior, as mindless as an Ionesco character, but the wasp cannot imagine any other way of doing the thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What courage the wasp had to tackle something so much bigger! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse- guard wasp hovers above herds of grazing cattle, destroying the blood-sucking flies that torment them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My stomach is a swarm of wasps in suspense. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I look up and it’s one of those big red wasps, bouncing against the inside of the window trying to get out. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z All of the sun bugs, the flies, the dragonflies, the wasps, the hornets, went home. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Winnie had killed a wasp once, in fear and anger, just in time to spare herself a stinging. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the village was not quiet and empty as it had been on the previous nights, but was buzzing like a wasp's nest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Any other insects she found nearby, such as flies, wasps, or beetles, she also included as part of its plant-insect community. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When the baboon spider was nearly dead—its legs quivered slightly—the wasp flew off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The wasp keeps flying at the glass over and over and over, like it doesn’t know the difference between glass and open air. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Her angry words buzzed around me, stinging like wasps. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Panic swarmed up me like wasps in a tin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Good training for when we’re all Aurors,” said Ron excitedly, attempting the Impediment Curse on a wasp that had buzzed into the room and making it stop dead in midair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It had certainly been that way with Cecilia, the beautiful butterfly who had turned out to be a poisonous wasp. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Admittedly this is painful and one is well advised to avoid being stung, just as one ordinarily avoids the sting of wasp or bee. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Muddauber wasps build columned nests of mud under the eaves of houses and stock them with insects on which their young will feed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Given my circumstances, I guess it doesn't matter what type of wasp nest it is. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The courtyard is full of ants, the bushes full of wasps and dirt daubers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The bedroom with blue curtains and yellow wasps that worried the windowpanes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were unusual spectacles, being without ear pieces, but shaped rather like scissors or like the antennae of the tarantula wasp. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped sleeping regularly, complained about hearing voices, and on two occasions ran out of the house naked because he thought he was being chased by wasps. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Iorek struck again, twisting to one side, slashing, snarling, crushing, while bullets flew about him like wasps or flies, doing no harm at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, thousands of Sixer gunships filled the sky like an angry swarm of metal wasps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The next morning, when I come home, the wasp is dead. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Once the wasp grub hatched, it would feed on the tarantula meat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly the whole building seethed like a wasp nest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry accelerated; the humming of the propeller shrilled from hornet to wasp, from wasp to mosquito; the speedometer showed that they were rising at the best part of two kilo-metres a minute. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Badgers are one of the few creatures which can munch up hedgehogs unconcernedly, just as they can munch up everything else from wasps’ nests and roots to baby rabbits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The black wasp dashed up to a twig and flipped it over. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can always tell. You look as if you’ve swallowed a wasp.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Traft and the men with him, swarming like enraged wasps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Flies, wasps, worms and all manner of crawlies had been thoroughly investigating him all afternoon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The king writhed on the floor like he was being stung by a swarm of wasps. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I mean, that might have nothing to do with his name. Maybe a wasp stung him on the armpit or something like that.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Their voices buzzed in his ears like wasps muffled in thick felt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z No question, it's acting a little subdued, but the wasp is up and moving and that means the others will be out soon as well. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In his fingers he carefully stretched out something that looked like a wasp, still alive. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a small, ragged mustache, and beneath this his lower lip looked as though it had been stung by a wasp. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The female Polistes wasp, taking shelter in a forgotten corner of some attic, carries in her body the fertilized eggs, the heritage on which the whole future of her colony depends. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A tall hat of fetal lamb balanced like a wasp’s nest on Grigori’s head, shadowing eyes as hard and gray as mica, with the same shallow gleam. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She would not run any more than the wasp had fled from the spider. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Followed by her brother and a yellow wasp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The young wasp, hatching as a larva, feeds on the paralyzed grub and destroys it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An enormous picture of a wasp was splashed across his chest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “A little one, that lives in oak trees, and eats wasps and worms and sparrows’ eggs—it grows no greater than this. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The poison from the stingers makes me wobbly, but I find my way back to my own little pool and submerge myself in the water, just in case any wasps are still on my trail. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We’d wash everything down with lemonade from that stand with the wasps buzzing all around it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He put the killer wasp in it like a slingshot and pulled back so far I thought it would snap in half. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But this stupid wasp chooses the one closed window in the whole apartment. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Some of them are funny, like “octopuses” and “fire hydrants” and “wasps.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Ever since then, I couldn’t stop thinking that I might be eating dead wasps when I ate a fig. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I was not the only student expelled from class that morning in January, but I felt the eyes of the students who stayed as I left, like wasp stings on my back. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Those swarms of small planes looked to me like wasps whose nest has been poked by a stick. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the one defense the rebels found to battle the wasps. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I haven't heard the cannons fire yet, so perhaps Glimmer is in some sort of coma, her heart still struggling against the wasp venom. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps’ nest in a rotten branch as we walked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z First he attracted wasps to a chunk of apple. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to fall asleep again and dream about killer wasps. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I roll up some of my homework papers and try to shoo the wasp to the next open window. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She is like a cup of warm lemonade buzzed about with wasps. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "Oh, thank you. There are a lot of wasps about this summer." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of eggs, travels aloft with a single theory about caterpillars. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And there she was, standing on the grass in his Oxford with Pan still as a wasp on her shoulder, and no one, as far as he could tell, had seen her appear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, I don't know what kind of wasp lives there. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Lymphocytes, like wasps, are genetically programmed for exploration, but each of them seems to be permitted a different, solitary idea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We are not committed or bound by our genes to stick to one activity forever, like the wasps. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran out to the porch and waved her hands over her head as if she were chasing off an attack of mud wasps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If the wasps are too groggy, if the nest catches on its way down, if I try to escape, this could all be a deadly waste of time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In contrast to this, the Office of Vital Statistics records 33 deaths in 1959 alone from the sting of bees and wasps. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Glimmer appears to go completely mad, shrieking and trying to bat the wasps off with her bow, which is pointless. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The fairy fly, a type of wasp, has the smallest heart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because this is barely a bite. You may as well have been stung by a wasp.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Larger than regular wasps, they have a distinctive solid gold body and a sting that raises a lump the size of a plum on contact. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Not about the little guys, like the wasp. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I can hear cries of "To the lake! To the lake!" and know they hope to evade the wasps by taking to the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Cloud-Men jumped around as if they had been stung by wasps. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Maria did not realize until later in her life that these “false changes”—moth cocoons that produced flies or wasps instead of moths—were caused by insect parasitism. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Still others felt that fire, as it leapt into the air, produced stinging wasps. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So too did the tiny insects that crawled upon them: the beetles and wasps, the bees that floated from blossom to blossom. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The shouting inside was drowned out by the sound of a thousand furious wasps as Babou drove the Bahrami family vehicle up to the curb. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The engine started, and the sound of the spinning propeller was as loud as a thousand-pound wasp. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z An instant of silence fell when you could hear a wasp on the windowsill. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The doors clanged shut and the elevator leaped away as though it had been stung by a wasp. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Helicopters were landing like wasps all over the hill, and out of them poured swarms of newspaper reporters, cameramen, and men from the television companies. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z A wasp goes tap tap tap along the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “They died out because of the dust. Don’t you really know what a wasp is? You must have been alive when there were wasps; that’s only been—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Avery is always fine. Of course, he gets into poison ivy and gets stung by wasps and bees and brings frogs and snakes home and breaks everything he lays his hands on. He’s fine.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z If God cared, he would have made the wasp smarter, so it wasn’t stuck, bouncing against the glass, trying to get outside to the sunshine and the rest of the world. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Olanna watched a wasp flit around the spongy nest lodged in the wall corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “You’re sitting watching TV,” he continued, “and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She had slammed at the wasp with a heavy book, and killed it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge spider stepped out from under a leaf the wasp had disturbed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The instant the discarded slab hit the floor of the room, the glass of the window exploded inward like a swarm of crystal wasps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Please sir, a wasp came in through the window and it’s stung me on my lip and it’s swelling up. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized the buzz actually came from a large wasp flying in erratic darts and circles over our heads. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She thrusts the fashion catalog at me so that I can see the bustle, which juts out of the rear of the woman’s hips and makes her look like a demented wasp. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Because your father once saved you from wasps?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I take the wasp’s body outside and bury it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Insects buzzed around her, lazy dragonflies and glistening green wasps and stinging midges almost too small to see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And there's another thing, these wasps will hunt down anyone who disturbs their nest and attempt to kill them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Somewhat recovered, Otto took to the branches while I scrambled through the overgrowth, making sure to shuffle my feet so I wouldn’t step on any wasp nests or vipers or millipedes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Granddaddy had told me about the wasp that could opt to be male or female while in a larval stage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He quickly bent a paper clip in half so the two prongs stuck out—we called those “wasps.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But I thought they were weird, because I accidentally read about how figs are pollenated by little wasps that climb inside them, mate, and then die. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Like the jabberjays, these killer wasps were spawned in a lab and strategically placed, like land mines, around the districts during the war. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I dreamed about that time I got stung by the wasp,” I said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he knew he had to give me enough time to run, or the wasps would have come after both of us.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The fields were packed with them—honeybees and hornets, wasps and yellow jackets, stinging things I couldn’t know or name —and every last one of them seemed to be at his command. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You’re sitting watching TV and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Some of the egg parasites are exceedingly minute wasps, yet by their numbers and their great activity they hold down the abundance of many crop-destroying species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I reached up to scratch my face and squished the wasp that had been sucking sugar off my cheek. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Parasites and predators of the gypsy moth achieved good control, as did the Tiphia wasp against the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He tried to calm himself, to concentrate on finding the Horcrux, but his thoughts buzzed as frantically and fruitlessly as wasps trapped beneath a glass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The wasp still clung with one black feeler to the edge of the pew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A large black wasp with scarlet wings ran over the sand, searching for the spiders that were its prey. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The anxiety feels like buzzing little wings in his ear in the silence, like a petulant wasp. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Colonel turned, swift as a wasp’s sting, and menaced into the gloom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The wasps have vanished in pursuit of the others. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And then he opened the bus window, put the two stingers on the lip and slammed it back down, so the prongs flattened into super sharp blades—we called those “killer wasps.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She includes two wasps as well, which were probably parasitic. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes a caterpillar and its pupa would surprise Maria by hatching into a swarm of flies or wasps instead of the moth or butterfly she expected. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It felt like a wasp had stung me in the ribs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The thudding of a wasp at the window caught his attention over the laboring of the air conditioner. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Shot outside Berlin, "Stung" centers on a garden party at a fancy estate that turns into a bloodbath when mutant killer wasps go on a feeding frenzy. Lance Henriksen's 'oddball' film picks speak to his creative nature 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Experts are not sure what fewer parasitoid wasps will mean to the health of the Earth in the future. Some wasps, flies and ants can turn fellow insects into zombies 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The home buzzed with wasps and flies and featured a picture of the former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin on the wall. The Legacy of a Falling Spider 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Because bees and wasps need nectar, and some species harvest pollen as well, Raymond first turned to plants that don’t rely on such pollinators to reproduce. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? Jane Eyre’s life is an idyllic summer camp in comparison with what this young man endures, holed up in his freezing attic room with wasps, ticks, rats. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z So if you get a little un-enzymed wasp with your fruit, it’s not really that much when you compare it to bug content in other foods. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z "Human beings are just bigger, slightly more complicated gall wasps." Kinsey: No sexing-up required 2010-07-08T09:14:00Z Judge Richard Park wanted to be Simon Cowell so much that he came off looking like an angry lunatic with a wasp in his skull. Must Be The Music: the anti-X Factor we've been waiting for? 2010-08-13T14:00:00Z Parasitoid wasps are thought to save the U.S. agricultural industry billions of dollars each year by implanting crop pests with babies that then devour the insects alive. Parasites may not be cute and cuddly, but they need saving too, scientists say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “Each fig species has a specific wasp type that pollinates the flower inside the fruit,” he said. In Madagascar, an island with unique species is a biking biologist’s dream 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Figs and fig wasps survive through a biological relationship called mutualism. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z He’s sleeping in a $26 Wal-Mart tent, having misplaced his better one, and his hand is smarting, thanks to the wasps whose nest he disturbed setting his stakes. Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe? The news of a movie about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has poked a stick into the nest of right-wing wasps, who have responded with their usual venomous inaccuracies, distortions and half-truths. Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Do not denigrate the wasp: It can put you in the hosp. Style Invitational: ’Hew ready? Verse for the rhythm-deaf 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In the course of their journey, they meet a blues-singing slow worm, Adam, and his travelling ants; a benevolent beetle sitting atop a pile of industrial detritus; and a wasp. The Fabulous Flutterbys 2010-05-16T21:05:00Z To put you more at ease, it's worth noting that most U.S.-grown figs are self-pollinating, so they’re wasp exoskeleton-free. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z In "Mammas," Rossellini dresses as a mother spider, wasp, hamster, toad, cuckoo, dunnock, oil beetle, piping plover and cichlid fish to show how each brings her young into the world. 'Mammas' is study in maternal instinct 2013-05-07T12:51:08Z In it Matt Del Rosario is joined by two X-shaped robots — they dart about the stage like alien wasps — prettified by bright, sometimes flashing, lights. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z Yet the fact that there's a Guardian feature on "How to enjoy eating outdoors: a guide to avoiding wasps, sand and warm mayonnaise" pretty much says it all for me. Meet me inside — I hate eating al fresco 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Its ink, we learn, is derived from growths that form on oak leaf buds when wasps lay their eggs there. Exhibition Review: ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives 2013-12-16T23:52:04Z “The wasp has to be really hungry to want to tackle a bristly caterpillar,” Weller said. Woolly bear caterpillars use clever tricks to survive 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The path Beneath my feet is no longer the path, Only my dream Of the wasp, the hoopoes, the fog. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z They use fig wasps to do the dirty work. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Pollinating insects, such as bees, beetles, flies, butterflies and wasps visit flowers to collect pollen and nectar as a source of food. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Many wasp species will find the aphid and scale insects in trees and shrubs. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? Growing up in a wasp family, "I knew antisemitism very well from the inside". Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z Berlin later confided to a friend that it was as if he had been "stung by several wasps". Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z For now, they are focused on the little adventures of toddlerhood – processing a wasp sting from last summer by pretending to be a wasp themself, and learning how to count. 'They don’t have to put on a show for anyone’s sake': Why this parent is raising a gender-free child | Adrienne Matei 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Somehow the newly born wasps, as they burst from their hosts, retain recognizable traces of their former habitats: a face here, a little dog’s body there. Review: ‘Stung’ Stars Giant Wasps That Attack the Rich 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z That applied also to the tiny wasp waist, caged in, as the designer herself took a bow. Dior Says It With Flowers 2012-07-02T17:48:48Z The woolly bear’s stiff hairs are an important defense against predators such as yellow jackets and other wasps. Woolly bear caterpillars use clever tricks to survive 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z On one visit, she bought wasp spray and toothpaste for herself, but splurged on gifts for a bride-to-be — buying for someone else was like a “gateway drug,” she said. Shoppers on a ?Diet? Tame the Urge to Buy 2010-07-21T20:16:00Z Oidium and mildew rot were considered real risks, and there were also concerns about the number of wasps. How Organic Champagne Growers Survived the Bad Summer 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z “People die every week from wasp stings, Africanized bees, not to mention hourly from auto accidents,” he said. Too many spiders? It’s just a cosmetic issue. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Inside was a cot, a stove and a half-dozen buzzing wasp nests. A Bike Tour of Eastern Kentucky‘s Back Roads 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Lovelle, whose wavy brown hair and wasp waist evokes Rita Hayworth, has carved out a character for herself as a pin-up, batting giant yellow feather fans and sewing her own sweeping satin gowns. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z Most paper wasps will relocate if you destroy their nests at an early stage. It’s outdoor entertaining season. Here’s how to keep the bugs at bay. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Thus, the brothers Bize won the municipal contract for wasp control in Paris. The Murder Hornet Hunters of Paris 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z A tiny sprig of poison oak would be mixed in with the greenery, or a wasp would fly out and sting the first wasp-allergic child I bumped into. Modern Love: Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible - Modern Love 2013-05-23T22:40:29Z Simply put, the wasp and the flower need one another to survive. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Instead we get a thin whine: a wasp in a jar, all pointless agitation and a touching desire to offend. A Novelist’s Requiem for the Male Libido 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z But he went on: “Famous last words of Ned Rorem, crushed by a truck, gnawed by the pox, stung by wasps, in dire pain: ‘How do I look?’” Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z It and other eye-catching animals — such as bright, poisonous butterflies or stinging wasps — “are advertising their defenses by their visual appearance,” Nokelainen says. A giant panda is big and black and white. Surprisingly, it can hide in plain sight. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z I ’m a bee lover, and I do everything I can to identify, understand and help the dozens of species of bees and wasps that are drawn to my garden. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? While harmless, they’ve adapted to look like stinging or biting bugs, mostly bees or wasps. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z I hear the first wasp Already rousing in the warmth Of the fog that seals this path Where a few puddles shine. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z And there is a wasp in the marmalade. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z You’ll find dung beetles on most lists of the top helpful creatures in the garden, along with bees, earthworms, predatory wasps and mosquito-eating bats. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The shortage started last fall, when ALK Laboratories of Denmark shut down production of six types of venom proteins — honeybee, wasp, white-faced hornet, yellow hornet, yellow jacket and “mixed vespid,” a cocktail of venoms. Insect venom shortage stings allergy sufferers this summer 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z "All politicians in the end are like crazed wasps in a jam jar, each individually convinced they are going to make it," he observes acutely with the sting of a queen wasp. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z Ms. Lloyd evidently hoped that an all-female staging — the men were played by women in drag — would pluck the stinger from the wasp, to paraphrase Petruchio. Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “The wasp programs a totally new behavior in the spider that it wouldn’t do on its own,” he says. Some wasps, flies and ants can turn fellow insects into zombies 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z And yet many people can’t distinguish a wasp from a fly or bee, never mind among bee species. An introduction to the 4,000 kinds of bees in the U.S. and Canada 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Yes, the wasp is soon taken care of, drowned by hot water. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Posting under the name Istrx13, the user explained that the dryer sheets are used to keep wasps away. Why people are finding dryer sheets in their mailboxes 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z It's got lovely little purple flowers, and is great for bees and parasitic wasps. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Then the female wasp lays its eggs inside the male fig, and male and female wasp babies are born. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Knausgaard tells us he wants to renew the world, but what world is this in which there is nothing more frightening than a wasp? In ‘Autumn,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard Shows His Sweet Side 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z That gnat on the chervil flower may be a tiny wasp that is obligingly pollinating the bloom. A quarantine project that’s a win for you, your garden and pollinators: A bee house 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z While the role of insect groups like flies and wasps in crop pollination has only gained recognition relatively recently. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes the digressions into immunobiology and the social organization of wasps seemed relevant; sometimes they didn’t. Books of The Times: ?The Neighborhood Project? by David Sloan Wilson - Review 2011-08-31T22:00:25Z This is the order that includes ants, bees and wasps. Some wasps, flies and ants can turn fellow insects into zombies 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Haunted bathrooms, the echoing memories of debauched parties, a topiary animal garden that seems to come to life, wasps' nests that feature a never-ending stream of hostile insects. Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z She placed the monarch caterpillar and the butterfly weed it was attached to inside the cage to protect it from red wasps. Margaret Renkl Writes in the Space Between Grief and Hope 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z But then, a wasp menaces, landing on our table. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But she’s becoming rougher lately, scrambling up trees, dunking into creeks, leaping off rocks, and getting stung by bees and wasps without crying. In the Sierra Nevada, an escape to the past 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z "It's summer time so hay fever and wasps," warns Goggings, who proceeds to complain about moths. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z It was a sea of flawless skin, diaphanous dresses, wasp waists, and carb aversion: the Bagger was one of only three at her table of 18 to not order the salad. Golden Globes 2017: A Weekend of It Girls and British Tea 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z The mother-of-four claims that she was awakened in the middle of the night by a swarm of wasps terrorizing her family. Airbnb renters reportedly terrorized by swarm of wasps while they slept: 'The kids were shrieking and shaking' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Apple flowers, for example, were visited by every type of pollinator except wasps. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The extent to which the newly named wasp might help in biological control is yet to be established. New to Nature No 20: Selitrichodes globulus 2010-10-14T12:34:00Z The array of cameras monitored insect activity among the strawberries, recording honeybees, hover flies, moths, butterflies and some wasps. AI can track bees on camera. Here’s how that will help farmers 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Once he threw his mighty stings with terrible accuracy, like a deadly Japanese wasp. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z Made of bird and wasp nests, rattan and other materials, the crawl-in burrow contains small felt sculptures of soil bacteria. Grown-Up Art at a Children’s Museum. But It’s Still Playtime. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In Film Socialisme, he again puts his hand in the wasps' nest with such lines as: "How strange that Hollywood should be invented by the Jews." Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Gill’s prose puts the wasp in your shirt, the weariness in you at the cellular level, the grizzly too close for comfort: “Planting trees isn’t hard,” she writes. “Eating Dirt:” down and dirty, planting the Canadian forests 2012-12-07T00:25:03Z Wells tales, which portrayed people on an island fighting overgrown rats, wasps and chickens that have lapped up radioactive stuff that looks like pancake batter oozing from the ground. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z A pile of what looked like gray posters were in fact recycled wasp nests. Brussels Art Week Expands at a Tricky Time 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Once the people realised they’d been duped, they attacked “with the fury of wasps”. 'They called me the antichrist': JT LeRoy, Laura Albert and the literary hoax 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Though art also troubled by wasps and possess the odour of barbecued sausage. Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z He drives a Vespa, Italian for “wasp”, imported into Pakistan by his father in 1974. Labor of love: Vintage Vespa fans cling to the past in Pakistan 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The midnight section will include “Stung,” about giant killer wasps, and “Emelie,” about a twisted babysitter. Patricia Arquette and Mary J. Blige Starring in Films Added to Tribeca Festival Lineup 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Without durable, waterproof oak gall ink — produced when wasps inject chemical irritants into trees — countless medieval and Renaissance manuscripts would have deteriorated into illegibility. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z She was later stung by a wasp and reacted normally to it. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? Before I could move the shelves, I had to remove those objects: seashells from vacations, random pottery, wasps’ and hornets’ nests, incense holders, pitchers, jugs and vases. The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z In case you didn’t know, oak galls are a little ball of bark created when a wasp deposits its larvae into an oak tree. Please, stop putting weird products like crocheted tampons in your vagina | Poppy Noor 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z When magnified, it was teeming, made up of particles of sand and cacti that had blown in from the desert, wasps, and the legs of other insects. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z Observing a woman at an adjoining table beat a wasp to death by repeatedly bashing it with a book, Tyler taps an ash off her cigarette and notes, “Not a Buddhist, then?” Review: ‘Animals’ Asks When, and If, the Party Has to End 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Mutant wasps wreak havoc at a country-estate garden party in "Stung," a homage to those 1980s creature features that reveled in grotesque details. 'Stung,' about mutant wasps, is a throwback to 1980s B movies 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z She can still soak up the camera hungrily, from those huge eyes and that perfect cascade of hair to the improbable wasp waist. "Passion Play": Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke, together at last 2011-05-07T16:01:00Z I find these small, harmless wild bees and wasps enormously entertaining as they flit about and feed on nectar and pollen. A quarantine project that’s a win for you, your garden and pollinators: A bee house 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was that first reading that made me brave, because an hour later, in the garden, a wasp landed on my face. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z “It’s like protecting yourself against a bee and a wasp, both of which can sting you,” Schaffner said. Yes, you can get a COVID booster and a flu shot together. Here’s what you need to know. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Wasps’ numbers are at their max in late summer, and because of a mild spring, the city was lousy with both native wasps and the Asian hornets this year. The Murder Hornet Hunters of Paris 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z When my daughter saw a bumblebee in our garden around the time of her second birthday, she surprised me by talking about being stung by a wasp the summer before, or half her life earlier. Perspective | What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The family claims they spent the remainder of the night hiding in one of the flat’s other rooms, while Cross’s husband attempted to keep the wasps blocked in the main bedroom. Airbnb renters reportedly terrorized by swarm of wasps while they slept: 'The kids were shrieking and shaking' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z “For a generation, they’ve been like a wasp in an airplane,” Bee said of the new religious right. Samantha Bee just schooled the religious right with a righteous history lesson 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But fig wasps are very small, usually only about 1.5 millimeters long. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Abel compares her to a hummingbird darting among the flowers or, when she is angry, to a wasp. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z He acted only occasionally until his 40s, when he fell off a roof while killing wasps. Exit, Stage Left, Grasping Cane; Enter, Sprinting 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The night was calm, except for a sting from a half-dead wasp that I missed on the cot. A Bike Tour of Eastern Kentucky‘s Back Roads 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Scientists only recently developed the tools to study parasitoid wasp DNA. Some wasps, flies and ants can turn fellow insects into zombies 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z When you eat a fig pollinated through mutualism, you are technically eating the wasp, too. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Buchloh-Kollerbohm explained that the suits of armor had been crafted to look like aggressive animals, such as wasps, and that they consisted of a kind of “exoskeleton.” I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z I know all about a buttery shirt and a long blazer/jacket hybrid that tapers around my rear like wasp wings. Both Sides of a Fashion Eccentric 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Strange, shiny and secretive, they’re made from acrylic and polyethylene and call to mind hanging torsos or wasp nests. Review | The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “But wasps,” Shockley says, “do some of the coolest stuff.” Some wasps, flies and ants can turn fellow insects into zombies 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z When her children were young, she stayed close to home, investigated parasitoid wasps and tiger moths in the neighborhood and nearby gardens, taught painting and wrote two books about European insects. Google honors a feminist original 2013-04-02T16:11:00Z He’d been fending off hornets as a firefighter in Paris; when his department punted the wasp problem to private pest technicians, a side business was hatched. The Murder Hornet Hunters of Paris 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Again, he lived with the other kids, running wild, trying to jump on to ice blocks floating on the river, killing snakes, putting spiders and wasps into cassette boxes to see which would kill which. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “The lemur eats the fruit, getting their protein from the wasp inside.” In Madagascar, an island with unique species is a biking biologist’s dream 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Not having acted or chosen, they never truly lived or died, and so are condemned forever to hell’s squalid lobby, stung by wasps and flies, chasing a banner that says nothing. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z You know those parasitic wasps that develop inside the bodies of caterpillars, slowly killing them by feeding off their flesh? Outnumbered and How the Other Half Lives 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z One intense section was all frenzied, fitful music, an evocation of swarming wasps. Review: JACK Quartet and Jennifer Koh in the NY Phil Biennial 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z We were like wasps in a bumblebees’ nest. ‘Animal House’ Oral History: From Richard Pryor to a Real Melee 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z "I cannot persuade myself," he wrote, "that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z The more tenacious pest is whitefly, and the options for dealing with this range from biological controls that include ordering parasitic wasps to heavy-duty systemic pesticides, with the risk of harm to beneficial insects. The sultry plant that will break your heart 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The exhibition was inspired by both artists’ engagement with the prose poems of French writer Francis Ponge, who described everyday things like flowers, wasps and soap with unbridled jubilation. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z I dislike yellow jackets but know other wasps as a class gardeners call “beneficials” — tiny helpers that take care of a host of plant pests, from aphids to destructive larvae. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? When not shooting wasps, he wrote a number of unusual – and unpublished – books, including A Short History of the Fork and Acorns as an Article of Medieval Diet. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Going Wild with Dominic Monaghan follows the actor as he travels the world in search of potentially deadly snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards, ants and wasps. VIDEO: 'Going wild' with Dominic Monaghan 2012-11-09T11:04:14Z She is possessed of bottle-blond hair that falls past her shoulders, full lips, a wasp waist and a pair of Cindy Crawford beauty marks just north of her upper lip. Will the Fashion World Accept Andreja Pejic As a Woman? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer, Mocco’s allergist, said research suggests that there is something about the heat and vibration of gas-powered lawn mowers that entices bees and wasps to attack. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? There are complications when the conjurers, who are losing their hold on the uneducated laborers of the plantation, capture Treemonisha and threaten to throw her into a nest of wasps. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z The summers were sweltering hot and spent outside, in backyards, dodging wasps and playing beneath the rain of sprinklers, or inside, drying off in refrigerated air, complaining of boredom. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Bize was then a sommelier, but as the honeybee versus hornet crisis of Paris intensified, his brother, a fireman named Gregory, roped him into wasp work. The Murder Hornet Hunters of Paris 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z I’m talking about annoying pests such as mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets and flies. It’s outdoor entertaining season. Here’s how to keep the bugs at bay. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z A bee or wasp sting will induce one of three basic reactions in people. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? No spiders dropped, and we got used to the flies and wasps. The Legacy of a Falling Spider 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Or, describing the moment when she meets her birth father: “My stomach clenched. Like a hovering wasp, his nearness made my shoulder smart.” Review | Her first memoir was about working as a dominatrix. How can a writer top that? 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z This is as close as a wasp can get to blowing a kiss. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z It was during the summer, and that knot hung down the middle of my back, and looked to me like a wasp’s nest, a tornado, something small and curled-up and defiant. I reveled in my androgyny 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z I think I saw Denise Lewis flailing around as if she was trying to fend off a gigantic wave of invisible wasps. Your Face Sounds Familiar – the worst show ever? 2013-07-01T11:07:19Z Her father, Sir George Sitwell, invented a tiny pistol for shooting wasps and a musical toothbrush. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Because if I want bumblebees, small solitary bees, and parasitic wasps to be in my garden in March, say, I need a few weeds, because that's what they love. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z I don’t mind snakes or spiders or wasps, and I’m not scared of any other kinds of insect, but ladybirds – I just don’t want to be near them. Experience: a ladybird nearly killed me 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It is thought that wasps that parasitize other insects, such as the Darwin wasp, could be more diverse than beetles. 'Alien' wasps thriving in tropical forests 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Citing body camera footage, the documents said Lewis can be seen spraying wasp and hornet killer spray at law enforcement officers before throwing the canister at them. 2 men accused of assaulting officers with flagpole, wasp spray during Capitol riot 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Beyond so many opportunities for herbivory, Asclepias flowers provide nectar to adult butterflies and moths, along with an astonishing lineup of bee species and wasps. Why milkweeds, once blossoming, attract lots of life 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Today celebrities are often top choices for such monikers—take the millipede named for Taylor Swift, the spider named for Bernie Sanders and the wasp named for Brad Pitt. Birds Named after People Will Get New English Names 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z But some experts disagree, saying that for every one beetle, there are an average of two to three wasp parasites. Parasites are the bedrock of life and evolution. It's time to give them the respect they deserve 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Around 80,000 parasitic wasp species have been described, but they require more study to understand how their populations survive across a wide-range of environments around the globe. 'Alien' wasps thriving in tropical forests 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z In Lewis’ case, court filings accuse him of deploying wasp spray against officers three times. 2 men accused of assaulting officers with flagpole, wasp spray during Capitol riot 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. These Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z We have a pool, which is unheated, and it’s filled with wasps and ants. How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Maria Bamford 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z While in orchids the length of the flower tube closely matches the length of the pollinating insect mouthparts, the island wasp has much shorter mouthparts than the bumblebee that pollinates Goodyera henryi on the mainland. Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Researchers say they have discovered high diversity of Darwin wasps in a tropical rainforest in Brazil, wasps which were previously thought to thrive more in cooler habitats. 'Alien' wasps thriving in tropical forests 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Fossil researchers have discovered a novel genus and species of tiny wasp with a mysterious, bulbous structure at the end of each antenna. New type of tiny wasp comes with mysterious, cloud-like structures at ends of antennae 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The sibling, let’s call him Brother, was taken captive by a tarantula hawk, a massive spider wasp that grows to two inches long. Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their Life to Impregnate a Mate 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Also, food tends to attract an array of flying and crawling critters, such as flies, wasps and ants, all of which can transfer germs, including E coli, Salmonella and Listeria, to your food. I’m a microbiologist and here’s what (and where) I never eat 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Because the bumblebee that an orchid relies on for pollination does not exist on a remote island, the plant gets pollinated by an island wasp. Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The wasps, which survive by living off host insects and spiders until adult-sized, were discovered on a mountain in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. 'Alien' wasps thriving in tropical forests 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z In their latest study, the scientist described a new wasp genus, Capitojoppa, to science. New insect genus discovered in one of the most biodiverse rain forest regions in the world 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z For several minutes the wasp circled him, flitting in and out with the agile prodding of a fencer. Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their Life to Impregnate a Mate 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Even indoors, one must consider contamination by insects, such as flies or wasps, settling on the uncovered food. I’m a microbiologist and here’s what (and where) I never eat 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Kobe University researchers found that this came at the cost of being hybridized with another orchid species adapted to being pollinated by the wasp. Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The pigeons, wasps and rats are having a field day. Tower Hamlets: Rubbish piles up as strike continues 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z It is a similar percentage in Europe, with other insects, such as wasps and butterflies, making up the remaining quarter. Farmers turn to tech as bees struggle to pollinate 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z The wasp turned upside down and maneuvered under Brother’s abdomen to search for a soft spot, like a mechanic sliding under the chassis of a car, and injected his paralyzing venom there. Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their Life to Impregnate a Mate 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z While we are more familiar with hunting wasps like yellowjackets, with their dramatic black and yellow stripes and painful stings, parasitoid wasps make up the vast majority of wasp species. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The research team speculate that, when Goodyera henryi first arrived on the island, it must have been visited by a wasp by chance, or precisely because the plant was not being visited by the bumblebee. Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Heather O'Shea, now 41, who grew up in nearby Cimla, remembers being stung on the bottom by a wasp while celebrating her birthday at the zoo. Penscynor Wildlife Park: Traumatic chimpanzee escape remembered 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The insects feed on native bees and wasps, damaging biodiversity. UK bees in danger as Asian hornet sightings rise 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z The arrival of a wasp at the table foreshadows what’s to come. Review: Necessary verbal ruthlessness is in short supply in this rare Harold Pinter revival 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The female wasp punctured the egg, laid her own egg inside and then searched for a location to bury the parasitized egg. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z But the season also brings along uninvited and less well-loved guests, such as wasps, ants, cockroaches, spiders and stinging insects. Questions to ask a pest control company before you hire them 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Hence, it evolved to produce a foul smell to attract insects like flies, beetles, and wasps that feed on dead animals. Hold Your Breath! A Stinky Corpse Flower Is About to Bloom In San Francisco! 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The Department for the Environment says the Asian hornet poses no greater risk to human health than other wasps or hornets but can cause damage to honey bee colonies and other beneficial insects. UK bees in danger as Asian hornet sightings rise 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z "There was no sign of a wasps nest and all of the doors and windows were shut. Inexplicable." Ghost hunting at 'haunted house' that sparked Hollywood interest 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z This parasitic behavior is very developed, and similar to the nest building behavior seen in solitary hunting wasps. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The same treatment that gets rid of ants will not work on a bee or wasp nest, and neither will work on termites. Questions to ask a pest control company before you hire them 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s different from object play, as bees have been observed doing, or social play, which has been observed in certain wasps and spiders. Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s also very easy to overlook just a few wasps, which might be enough to rebuild a nest and put you right back in the same situation. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Every area has its own ecosystem and combinations of useful plants and poisonous ones, helpful bees and stinging wasps. 7 ways to keep your family safe at home this summer 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The researchers therefore believe that further research could help shed light on how these behaviors evolved in other wasps. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Hexagons are mutually associated with bees and wasps, as both insect species build their nests using this humble six-sided shape. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Just as humans are urged to avoid messing with wasps, it appears that wasps follow that same advice when it comes to potentially antagonizing members of their own species. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z So, if you have a lot of wasps on your property, you might need professional help even finding them. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z When she was stung by wasps, her mother spread turpentine on her injury and they pushed on. Tulare Lake’s ghostly rebirth brings wonder — and hardship. Inside a community's resilience 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z It could also help explain the unique specialized head structure of Loboscelidia wasps, which could be useful for digging holes in the soil. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Anyone who stumbles upon a bee or wasp nest in nature will be greeted by rows and rows of dozens of tiny symmetrical hexagons. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z One could even say that wasps are the cunning analysts of the animal world, strategically plotting how to maneuver in the game of life with their peers like a Machiavellian schemer in any melodrama. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The cost of wasp extermination or nest removal depends on the extent of the problem. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Paula Denvir thought there was a swarm of wasps in her parents' house last July and was told they would go away when the weather got colder. Honey bees nested in our chimney for over a year 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z By the end of the field survey, the scientists had collected 70 individuals from the Loboscelidia group, taking high-resolution close-up photos of each wasp. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z How do wasps and insects solve this architectural problem? Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Scientists studied how wasps eavesdrop on each other in 2020, as detailed in the journal Current Biology. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z However, solving your wasp problem often involves more than just removing the hive. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Fast forward a year, and those 'wasps' were actually honey bees that had set up a nest in a boarded-up chimney of the County Down house she now lives in with her husband. Honey bees nested in our chimney for over a year 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z One unusual feature of the wasps was the presence of hairs at the back of their head and on their body, with the arrangement and density of body hairs differing between each species. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z According to corresponding author Dr. Michael Smith, who teaches at Auburn University's Department of Biological Sciences, bees and wasps have developed remarkably similar methods for solving hexagon-based architectural problems. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Researchers singled out specific northern paper wasps to observe other northern paper wasps fighting each other through a clear partition. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z You can protect against wasps and other invasive pests by preventing them from nesting near or around your home. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Some species of wasps recognize their nest mates' faces and acquire impressive social skills. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z An FBI agent wrote in court papers that Moloney appears to have come to the Capitol “prepared for violence,” with protective eyewear, a helmet and a can of insecticide - wasp, hornet & yellow jacket killer. Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z This discovery is significant because bees and wasps do not share any ancestors that built hexagons. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Once control trials confirmed that there were no plausible alternate explanations for the wasps' behavior, the researchers concluded that wasps can learn about new individuals simply through observation. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Porch ceilings, roof eaves and openings in walls are all other prime areas for wasps to nest. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z For example, they can infer the fighting strengths of other wasps relative to their own just by watching other wasps fight among themselves. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z An FBI agent wrote in court papers that Moloney appears to have come to the Capitol “prepared for violence,” with protective eyewear, a helmet and a can of insecticide — wasp, hornet & yellow jacket killer. Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Smith told Salon it's likely useful for people to know that the hexagonal arrays built by bees and wasps are very different. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Additionally, because wasps live in colonies, it is theoretically possible that they may even communicate this information somehow to other members of their communities. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Certain plants will help keep wasps out of your hair. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Eastern phoebes are in the flycatcher family and consume not just flies, but also wasps, grasshoppers and even ticks — great news to those of us who can’t walk in the woods without getting bitten. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The actor then explained that, two days prior, a flying insect that was neither a bee nor a wasp, bit her arm. Melissa Gilbert issues word of caution after hospitalization due to mysterious bug bite 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Therein lies the remaining mystery: To what extent are these bees and wasps actually "aware" of what they're doing? Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In other words, wasps are smart enough to look at other individuals of their species and make individual-specific decisions based on their behavior. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Basil, mint, thyme, geraniums, marigolds, wormwood and citronella all add a little flair to your garden while also repelling pests such as wasps. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Some exceptions exist: for example, in bees, wasps, and ants, the male is haploid because it develops from unfertilized eggs. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some exceptions exist: For example, in bees, wasps, and ants, the male is haploid because it develops from an unfertilized egg. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Ants, bees and wasps have a genetic system that makes the females in a family more closely related than usual; this may be part of why queen-led colonies evolved several times in these insects. All Hail the King (of the Termites) 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z "The wasps I study, paper wasps, are surprisingly intelligent. Their brain is about the size of a grain of rice, yet they engage in incredibly complex social behavior." Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z If your pro is using chemicals to help get rid of the wasps, make sure they hold the required state, local and EPA certification to work with that chemical. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The real-life fungi that inspired The Last of Us hijacks the bodies of ants, wasps, cicadas, and more. How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Parthenogenesis occurs in invertebrates such as water fleas, rotifers, aphids, stick insects, and ants, wasps, and bees. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Like ant, bee or wasp queens, termite royals can live substantially longer than their subjects. All Hail the King (of the Termites) 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z This includes tracking other wasp's social relationships via eavesdropping, remembering and recognizing individual wasp faces, and even human faces, and even some skills humans can't pull off. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Seal small cracks, crevices and other openings around the house or yard; wasps like these nooks and crannies to hide their young. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The smoking gun was the discovery of numerous sleeping wasps entombed in web, their innards sucked dry. Eight-Legged Candy-Striper Killers Prowl Before the Sun Rises 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The tarantula hawk, a kind of wasp, ranked a 4 on the pain index: Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Termites, like many ant, bee and wasp species, live in collaboratives of sterile workers. All Hail the King (of the Termites) 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z "For example, wasps can navigate accurately and precisely over many miles without needing a compass or phone." Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Other flies and tiny wasps were more common there. How Pollination Affects Chocolate Production 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But many different insects also visit flowers and help plants reproduce, including flies, wasps, beetles, and even certain mosquitoes. Climate change means more flies and fewer moths and bees, study says 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z He ranked, from 1 to 4, the pain caused by the stings of 80 types of bees, wasps and ants that he had encountered, and gave vivid descriptions of what they felt like. Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z In the nests of ants, bees or wasps, the sole monarch is a queen. All Hail the King (of the Termites) 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z That said, Tibbetts was not downplaying the question of how intelligent wasps truly are. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Her own research career has focused on organisms that are not exactly crowd-pleasers: social wasps and social amoebae. Check your pace and embrace ‘slow birding,’ a contemplative look at our feathered friends 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z To test whether these males’ pseudostingers might deter attackers, the researchers enclosed male mason wasps with one of their predators, a tree frog. News at a glance: Ebola vaccine trial on hold, Oppenheimer’s name cleared, and the return of a long-forgotten coffee bean 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Red-headed paper wasp, Level 3: “Immediate, irrationally intense and unrelenting. This is the closest you will come to seeing the blue of a flame from within the fire.” Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z When a Japanese entomologist got stung by a male wasp earlier this year, she was shocked. Male wasps fend off attackers with penis ‘stingers’ 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Additionally, regardless of how smart wasps truly are, it is clear that humans are dumb when they try to harm them. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z At first she thought she’d been stung—a surprise because most males of the insect order Hymenoptera, to which wasps belong, do not have stingers. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Instead of having a tasty snack, the frogs were repeatedly stung in the mouth by the wasps, who evaded becoming meals, at least temporarily. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z We’ve been wandering the preserve for more than an hour, and all we’ve seen are a few small wasps, a couple of ants, a housefly and lots of honey bees, which is a bad sign. Forget honey bees. This L.A. artist finds meaning chasing California native bees 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z To test whether these male pseudostingers might deter attackers, the researchers placed male mason wasps inside an enclosure with one of their predators, a tree frog. Male wasps fend off attackers with penis ‘stingers’ 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Because there is such a large number of wasp species, they are also valuable in terms of understanding evolution. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Pond frogs ate every wasp they encountered, but 35 percent of the intact male wasps were able to fight off tree frog predation with pseudo stings, causing the frog to spit them out. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “I was very excited to know that male wasps as well as female ones are able to ‘sting’ because I had believed that male wasps never counterattack.” For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Dozens of states have passed legislation to promote the health of pollinators, which include bees, wasps, bats and butterflies, while some have curbed the authority of homeowner association edicts during droughts. They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn Lost. 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Male wasps that had their pseudostingers removed uniformly became frog food. Male wasps fend off attackers with penis ‘stingers’ 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z From a strictly strategic standpoint, there is obviously something about being a wasp that gets rewarded by nature. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Eighty-seven percent of the female wasps escaped the tree frogs as well. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z When a predator dares get too close to a female wasp, she can use her ovipositor — her egg-laying tube organ — to deliver a painful, venomous jab. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Another unexpected application for the antimicrobial sealant: “To embalm large intruders like mice and wasps that are too heavy to carry out after they sting them to death,” she said. How to read tree leaves — the science of plants 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Now that they know what to look for, the researchers suspect they’ll find similar tactics in other wasps. Male wasps fend off attackers with penis ‘stingers’ 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In fact, it is estimated that there are more diverse species of wasps than any other creature on Earth, outpacing even beetles, which have an estimated 380,000 species. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Removing the whole apparatus, he notes, might be “awfully traumatic” for the wasps. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Less is known to science about male wasps’ defenses. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Development, construction and other human activity is thought to be the largest cause of habitat decline since then, but nonnative deer, rabbits, wasps, snails and plants also pose a significant threat. Will this rare butterfly found only on San Juan Island go extinct? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Stripes are for bees and wasps and prison inmates. Perspective | Whose side are you on? Caravaggio cast shadows of doubt over everything. But because so many wasps are parasites of beetles, some argue that wasps must be even more abundant and diverse. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The male wasps may gain an evolutionary advantage by acting like females, whose stings inject venom and cause serious harm. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Although their lances don’t deliver any venom, “male wasp ‘stinging’ is very similar to the female stinging behavior,” he said. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Scientists have discovered the wasp in the United States and Oregon, where it was initially distributed across the state by Wiman and a team of scientists at OSU and elsewhere. Population surge of stink bugs threatens fruit and vegetable crops 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z So is a less celebrated group of insects, parasitoid wasps, which lay their eggs inside other insects and spiders. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Humans stand to gain far more from studying the wasps around them, rather than trying to wipe them out. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z To scare a predator into spitting it out, a male wasp “doesn't actually have to do the damage,” Schmidt says. These Male Wasps Use Genital Spines to Scare Off Attackers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for the male wasps, their sharp counterattacks didn’t work every time. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The parasitic wasp hunts for the egg masses of the stink bug and lays an egg inside each egg in the mass. Population surge of stink bugs threatens fruit and vegetable crops 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z If the hornets’ nests are near the doors, deal with those first with a can of wasp and hornet spray, applied at night or early in the morning from a distance. Advice | Is a dilapidated playhouse worth repairing? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z After all, most wasps are canny enough to not mess with humans unless they absolutely need to, usually in the context of defending their nests. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s usually just some insect — often an aphid, midge or wasp — setting up housekeeping or building a nursery to raise their young. Those weird marks on your leaves? Here’s how to decipher them 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z More research is needed to understand this morphing, but this experiment gives reason to believe it’s widespread in wasps around the world. For Wasps, Sexuality Equality Includes Genital Stingers 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The wasp develops inside the egg, effectively killing the stink bug, and then chews its way out. Population surge of stink bugs threatens fruit and vegetable crops 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Mites and wasps that used to feed on the greenery have started to eat away at the mudbrick walls and foundations. In Iraq's Babylon, age-old building techniques heal climate scars 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Paper wasp stings are notoriously painful, and can indeed be deadly if one is allergic to their poison. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Eiseman is working on a guide to the larvae of sawflies — the most primitive group of Hymenoptera, the relatives of ants, bees and wasps. Those weird marks on your leaves? Here’s how to decipher them 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The finding is a first for any insect species, although an earlier study observed wasps appearing to play fight with one another. News at a glance: Bumble bees that play, risky fungi, and Java Man’s fate 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z OSU Extension has a short publication on the wasp and its effect on the stink bug. Population surge of stink bugs threatens fruit and vegetable crops 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “He was like 4 years old when he got his first very first wasp sting. It put him into anaphylaxis. I don’t know what we would have done without a hospital.” Dems push Medicaid expansion for left-behind rural Georgia 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z More recently, Yoo has been assisting as the New Jersey Department of Agriculture attempts a biological control, releasing parasitoid wasps known to feed on emerald ash borer larvae. Baseball History Is No Longer Written With Ash Bats 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Gall insects are everywhere: It is estimated that 1,000 species of gall wasps in North America are responsible for the galls on oaks alone. Those weird marks on your leaves? Here’s how to decipher them 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They are precise, small in size, able to engage a target in relatively large numbers like a swarm of wasps and above all, they’re cheap. EXPLAINER: Killer drones vie for supremacy over Ukraine 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Farmers and homeowners can serve a key role in samurai wasp research by collecting possible brown marmorated stink bug egg masses and reporting them. Population surge of stink bugs threatens fruit and vegetable crops 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z My sisters and I would loll on a cot under its shade, immobilized by the sticky heat and mesmerizing terror as wasps floated among the leaves like drunken marionettes, sipping on overripe fruit. How gardening may extend your life and make it better 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z He said that the spider's bite was like a wasp's sting in many cases, but for some people it could produce a stronger reaction that may require hospital treatment. False widow spiders: Mum's warning after baby is bitten 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It is partially responsible for the pain and irritation of ant and wasp stings, and is responsible for a characteristic odor of ants that can be sometimes detected in their nests. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Parthenogenesis occurs in invertebrates such as water flees, rotifers, aphids, stick insects, some ants, wasps, and bees. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “It is mildly sweet, and I fully understand why ants, yellow jackets, honeybees, paper wasps and so many other sugar-seekers are attracted to it,” Raupp said. The spotted lanternfly can ruin crops. It’s invading Loudoun County. 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z In an orange bucket, she kept district-issued emergency supplies: wasp spray, to aim at an attacker, and a tube sock, to hold a heavy object and hurl at an assailant. Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z The false widow is said to have a bite on a par with a wasp's sting. False widow spiders: Mum's warning after baby is bitten 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z "It could just have been a momentary lapse in attention, sneezing, a wasp," PC Warren said. A1(M) Bowburn crash: Three-death smash remembered a year on 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The activities of social insects such as bees, wasps, ants, and termites are good examples. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The sweet liquid attracts yellow jackets, wasps and ants. The spotted lanternfly can ruin crops. It’s invading Loudoun County. 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z For Mandi, the decision to be armed in the classroom seemed like a better solution than wasp spray or a tube sock. Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z In Oregon, officials will likely try to slow the borer’s spread and reduce its population by removing infested trees, selectively using insecticides, and releasing tiny wasps that parasitize and kill the beetles’ larvae. Deadly pest reaches Oregon, sparking fears for ash trees 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Those seeking a hobby this summer might consider adopting a wasp. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The caterpillars die when the eggs hatch, and the young wasps feed on the body of the caterpillar. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z It is the one least like the others — more a memoir, and principally the story of his “Papa,” likewise a man of science, an expert in wasps. Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Researchers found greater mouse-eared bats mimic the buzzing sound of stinging insects like wasps, likely to scare off predators. Bats buzz like hornets to scare away predators 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The wasps have been deployed widely and have been shown to attack the borer, though whether they can actually protect trees remains unclear, scientists say. Deadly pest reaches Oregon, sparking fears for ash trees 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The project requires participants to “adopt” paper wasp nests and monitor them weekly from June through October to see if they are visited by hornets, the agency said in a news release. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Egg- laying females of two species of parasitoid wasps were studied in special growth chambers in which a food source was either provided or omitted. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z And nature, embodied by the wasps, was ever his compass. Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Every time Russo went to grab the animals and remove them from his nets, “they buzzed like wasps or hornets,” he says. Bats buzz like hornets to scare away predators 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z All those deviants and devious fortune tellers, popes and gluttons writhing in slime, the selfish eternally stung by wasps and thieves devoured by reptiles have no way out. Commentary: Thomas Adès' fantastical 'Dante' at the L.A. Phil makes Gen X proud 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Whatcom County residents have reported Asian giant hornets attacking paper wasp nests in the past two years. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z For example, when a wasp sting led to bilateral basal ganglia damage in a 25-year-old businessman, he began to spend all his days in bed and showed no interest in anything or anybody. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “His passion for these wasps had been the single thread of continuity as everything else — his home, his family, his loves — was heaved around by world events beyond his control,” Heinrich writes. Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z One of the mouse-eared bats’ biggest predators are owls, which commonly live in the tree nooks or rock crevices that wasps, hornets, and other buzzing, stinging insects hole up in. Bats buzz like hornets to scare away predators 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In its cool, damp depths where no external light filters in, the flashlights of Simek and his colleagues revealed faint impressions on the ceiling depicting birds, snakes, wasps, and overlapping patterns of lines. Largest Native American cave art revealed by 3D scans 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z In 2021, the department tracked a hornet’s activity, and observed it repeatedly return to the same nest and remove the paper wasp larvae. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “If we took wasps out of the equation,” she said, “many of the leaf- and seed-eating insects they prey on would just go unchecked.” Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z “The wasps had been the anchor in the storms of his life.” Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The whining buzz of a wasp is enough to send many of us running for the hills. Bats buzz like hornets to scare away predators 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z No one is hurt, but it can be intense and visceral, like when Scrat hits himself in the face with a cactus and then a wasp nest to please the baby. What to watch with your kids: ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ and more 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Paper wasps, varying in size and gray or brown in color, are not typically aggressive — though they can sting if threatened. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z All such sustenance is brought back by adult female wasps to provision their nests, as food for their larvae. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z In each ecosystem, the plant served as food for two species of aphids, which in turn fed a parasitoid wasp. A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Scientists discovered the ash borers’ natural enemies are small parasitoid wasps, native to China and the Russian Far East. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Multiple insect lineages, including parasitic wasps, have evolved similar wings as they downsized—but these beetles use a previously unknown strategy to generate their outsized flight prowess, according to the new study’s authors. Tiny Flier ‘Swims’ through the Air at Superspeed 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z While the department is encouraging all Washington residents to participate in it’s “adopt a wasp” project, officials are especially seeking participation from residents in Whatcom, Skagit, Island, San Juan, Snohomish, King, Jefferson, and Clallam counties. ‘Adopt’ a wasp to help monitor Asian giant hornets in WA 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The list of the organic pest control services offered by wasps goes on, and yet it is the wasps that we humans reflexively regard as pests. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Some of the experimental ecosystems had more variation in the number of genetic combinations than others; the researchers watched to see how well plants, aphids and wasps would coexist in each scenario. A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The wasp babies feed on and ultimately kill the host. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z His AI system never spotted a murder hornet, but it did catch plenty of wasps and earwigs sneaking into his hives — a modest but important step for no-code. ‘No code’ brings the power of AI to the masses 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Like other species of milkweeds, it can aid pollinators such as bees, butterflies and wasps that visit the plant to drink the nectar. A rare plant found in Texas and Mexico could be listed as an endangered species 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “But social wasps are very inclined to defend their home.” Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z This in turn allowed the aphids, as well as the wasps that relied on them for food, to become larger faster. A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The wasps were taken to a quarantine facility, where they were tested to ensure that they would attack only ash borers, not other species. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z When galls from different wasp species form, they take on a variety of sizes and shapes. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z It was promising news, he said, because the wasp may have a “wide forage range,” collecting pollen from one plant and potentially carrying it to another plant of the same species miles away. A rare plant found in Texas and Mexico could be listed as an endangered species 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “People have long known these wasps have flower associations,” Holm said. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Many women admitted to carrying some type of weapon in their cars for protection, from pepper spray and wasp spray to tasers and knives — often going against company policy, such as Lyft’s “No Weapons” policy. Women who drive for Uber and Lyft are being left to fend for themselves 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Then researchers worked in the lab to produce thousands of wasps, plus their food source — emerald ash borers. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The paper does not formally describe or give a name to any species in the complex, as such taxonomic work would require more evidence and microscopic measurements of the wasps’ body parts. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Best described a local botanist discovering a large wasp called a tarantula hawk pollinating on a prostrate milkweed. A rare plant found in Texas and Mexico could be listed as an endangered species 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Another anatomical difference: The range of flowers that adult wasps can drink nectar from is limited because their tongues are typically shorter than those of bees. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Still, monarchs are an important food for insects like spiders, flies and wasps, who are an important food source for birds, Pelton said. He spends his days counting monarch butterflies in L.A. He could use your help 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Finally, to make sure the wasps connected with their target, scientists carefully synchronized their release into nature with the ash borers’ activity. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z But Dr. Forbes hopes someone will take up the taxonomic mantle and name each of these 16 to 18 long-overlooked wasps. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Pink-toed tarantulas have large fangs and are venomous but not extremely toxic, with a bite likely to cause swelling similar to a wasp sting. Tarantula found by passengers on London Bridge train 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z While choosing native plants is important when you’re creating a habitat that supports beneficial insects, the wasps have an additional request: simple, shallow flowers, please. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Firecrackers, cars throwing sparks, a rancher hammering a metal stake into a wasps’ nest, expectant parents igniting pyrotechnic devices at gender-reveal parties. This Isn’t the California I Married 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Because the wasps are only interested in emerald ash borers, “they don’t sting,” Duan says. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The tiny wasps are normally stored in drawers. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Worried about wasps that sometimes lurk upstairs, all nine are camping out in the downstairs room. A Refugee Crisis Runs Into a Housing Crisis 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “If you have white and purple prairie clover side by side,” Holm said, “you’ll likely observe wasps preferentially visiting the white flowers.” Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z On Aug. 3, they came upon the wasp’s nest. Timber Poachers Set a Forest on Fire. Tree DNA Sent One to Prison. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z When an adult wasp locates ash borer eggs or larvae, it uses a tubelike organ called an ovipositor to deposit its babies. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the wasp’s striking beauty — wasps can be conventionally attractive, too — but its life strategy. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The behavior showed the bees’ highly evolved social organization, said Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen, a wasp researcher at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi and an author on the new paper. I scream. You scream. Bees scream, too. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Remember the restaurant-versus-home analogy, she said, and go ahead: Start planting with wasps in mind. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It felt a little accusatory, as though the neurotic author and critic had manifested the wasps. Gary Shteyngart's cozy, dystopian, soap-operatic immigrant COVID paradise 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z U.S. regulators have approved four wasp species for biocontrol: three from China and one from Russia. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs on or inside other insects and arthropods, and the larvae eat their way out when they hatch. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z This past summer, I found an old paper wasp nest in my bedroom window, in the space between the glass pane and the screen. Why We Need ‘Goosebumps’ More Than Ever 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z And if you had a ground-nesting colony in the yard last year, look there first, Holm recommended, because wasps will often search for and initiate a nest near the site of their natal one. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Watts’ first job at 8 years old was to crawl under the bee huts and crush nonstinging mono wasps with his finger. Renting bees to farms and gardeners keeps Bothell company buzzing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z At test sites in Michigan and New England, the wasps are starting to make an impact, reducing ash borer populations. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Each parasitoid wasp species tends to prefer one or a few hosts. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I am mortally terrified of bees and wasps, but absurd body horror made my terror manageable, even funny. Why We Need ‘Goosebumps’ More Than Ever 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Holm’s strategy for changing our minds about wasps: to keep telling their stories. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z They feast on more than 70 plant species and leave behind “honeydew” droppings, which attract wasps and other stinging insects and which breed a black, sooty mold that can significantly damage plants. How You Can Help Stop Invasive Spotted Lanternflies 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Though the pests greatly outnumber the wasps for now, Duan is optimistic. Tiny wasps could help save trees under attack 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Parasitoid wasps often have specialized adaptations that allow them to broach certain kinds of gall. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z A tiny wasp found in China, Dryinus browni, lays its eggs inside baby spotted lantern fly nymphs, which later hatch into larvae and feed on the nymphs, killing them. The invasive spotted lantern fly is spreading across the Mid-Atlantic 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z She’ll know she has finally succeeded, she said, when she sees evidence on social media that people have moved in close enough to photograph wasps nectaring on the blooms — not just more butterfly photos. Why you should plant a garden that’s wasp-friendly 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Adult paper wasps are capable builders, painstakingly mouth-crafting nests out of plant matter and spit. The Grooviest Cocoons in the Insect Kingdom 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It is now a 4.5-mile fire hazard infested with wasps and rats just waiting to go up in flames running straight through South Seattle. Rant and Rave: Reader annoyed with overgrown trail 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The paper emerged out of a larger project studying the co-evolution of North American gall wasps and their parasites, said Andrew Forbes, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Iowa. A Parasitic Wasp Unmasked: One Species Is Actually 16 Species 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z One of the brightest green glows in the animal kingdom doesn’t come from a firefly or a deep-sea fish—it radiates from the nests of the Asian paper wasp, according to a new study. These wasp nests give off one of the most powerful green glows in the animal kingdom 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z |
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