Hymenoptera: Quick Facts

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Bumblebee pollination

A metallic green chalcid wasp (Torymus species) with a long ovipositor extending from its abdomen stands on a branch, showing clear wings and red eyes.

Honey ant repletes

Illustration showing three honeybees (Apis mellifera) side by side for size comparison: a small worker bee, a larger queen bee with an elongated abdomen, and a robust drone bee with a broader body.

A diagram explaining haplodiploidy in bees, showing how unfertilized eggs from diploid female bees develop into haploid male bees, while fertilized eggs from the combination of female eggs and male sperm develop into diploid female bees.

A tarantula hawk wasp with a shiny blue-black body and bright orange wings clings to a yellow wildflower.

Leaf-cutting bees

Diagram showing the life cycle of a honeybee, with stages from egg, larva, and pupa to adult emerging from a honeycomb cell. A queen bee lays an egg, a worker bee feeds the larva, and the adult bee emerges on day 21.

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Lion (panthera leo)

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

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Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).

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Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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wasp. Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antennas and compound eyes drink nectar from a cherry. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees. Pollination

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