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WASPS wasp - Coggle Diagram
DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS
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Wasps are subdivided into two groups: solitary wasps, which live alone, and social wasps, which live in colonies.
Wasps belong to the order Hymenoptera and are
divided into two groups which are Parasitica and the Aculeata !
The body has a distinct waist. The first segment of the abdomen is incorporated into the thorax. A narrow region called the petiole joins this to the rest of the abdomen, called the gaster.
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Ecological
As prey
- The honey buzzard often feeds on wasp larvae has specialized in eating stinging insects like making aerial sallies and removing the venom from the stinger by repeatedly brushing the prey firmly against a hard object.
Aerial sallies
Parasitoid
- They lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods, sooner or later causing the death of these hosts.
- Strategy which living inside the host, allowing it to continue growing before emerging as an adult.
Models for mimics
- Social wasps are the models for many species of mimic.
- With their powerful stings and conspicuous warning coloration.
Generalist predators
- Control populations of a wide range of species.
Specialist pollinators
- Inadvertently transferring
pollen between flowers they visit for nectar collection.
- Has specialize a body part for pollen storage.
Medical Importance
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Other potential venom-related treatments for immune-related diseases, infections, and tumor therapies; however still under research :check:
Economic
Pest controllers
- act as solid pest control for at least two high-value crops which are maize and sugarcane.
- when the pests had bored inside the plants without being present on the plant surface, the wasps were able to go into the plant and pull out the pests.
Produce nectar
- B. mellifica is one of few wasp species that produces honey
- Human takes honey from their hives