* Chalcid wasps: Among the smallest of insects (< 3 mm ).

Their flowers are among the most diverse and unusual, although often very small, and specialize in using tiny insects such as gnats or Chalcid wasps for pollination.

Chalcid wasps also seek out philodendrons, and are known to lay their eggs in the ovaries of many philodendron species, resulting in galled inflorescences.

The largest and best-known group comprises the so-called " Parasitica " within the Hymenopteran suborder Apocrita: the largest subgroups of these are the chalcidoid wasps ( superfamily Chalcidoidea ) and the ichneumon wasps ( superfamily Ichneumonoidea ), followed by the Proctotrupoidea and Platygastroidea.

The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally-recognized lineages, the " sphecoid " wasps, and the bees.

The superfamily is made up of the ichneumon wasps ( often inaccurately called " ichneumon flies "; family Ichneumonidae ) and the braconids ( family Braconidae ).

Crabronidae is a large family of wasps, that includes nearly all of the species formerly comprising the now-defunct superfamily Sphecoidea.

Gall wasps ( Cynipidae ), also called Gallflies, are a family of the order Hymenoptera and are classified with the Apocrita suborder of wasps in the superfamily Cynipoidea.

Tiphiidae ( also known as the Tiphiid wasps or, rarely, flower wasps ) is a family of large solitary wasps whose larvae are almost universally parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.

Eggs of Dytiscus are sometimes parasitized by wasps of the families Eulophidae, Mymaridae and other Chalcidoidea.

Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis in the family Pompilidae ( spider wasps ).

The North American cicada killer wasps all belong to the genus Sphecius, of which there are 21 species worldwide.

It attracts predatory wasps, which drink the nectar and then use insect pests as food for their larvae.

Among the insect groups are grasshoppers, beetles, flies, termites, butterflies and moths, bees, wasps, ants, dragonflies and damselflies, caddis flies, non-biting midges and mayflies.

Most insect parasitoids are wasps or flies, and usually have a very narrow host range.

Some Sphex wasps drop a paralyzed insect near the opening of the nest.

It eats a wide variety of arthropods, including centipedes, millipedes and many types of insect — beetles, cockroaches, termites, grasshoppers and crickets, flies, butterflies and moths, and ants, bees and wasps.

Bees appear in recent classifications to be a specialized lineage of crabronid wasps that switched to the use of pollen and nectar as larval food, rather than insect prey ; this presumably makes Crabronidae a paraphyletic group.

Amongst the insect prey a number of different types are eaten ; beetles, grasshoppers and other Orthoptera, flies, mosquitoes, wasps, termites, mantises and others all being recorded.

It is a specialist feeder, living mainly on the larvae and nests of wasps, although it will take other small insect prey such as cicadas.

An ant is a eusocial insect that belongs to the same order as wasps and bees.

Laboratory experiments have shown that when foundresses are injected with juvenile hormone ( JH ), a hormone responsible for regulating growth and development in many insect species including wasps, the foundresses exhibit an increase in dominant behavior compared to those who had not been injected.

The list includes at least ten species of insect, such as the Kelso Dunes Giant Sand Treader ( Macrobaenetes kelsoensis, a species of camel cricket ), the Kelso Dunes Jerusalem Cricket ( Ammopelmatus kelsoensis, a stenopelmatid ), a giant Mydid fly ( Rhaphiomidas tarsalis ), and the Kelso Dunes Shieldback Katydid ( Eremopedes kelsoensis ), as well as several rare native bees, wasps, and beetles.

The wasps are currently used to control at least 28 species of insect pest, including the cotton bollworm, codling moth, and European corn borer.

Some larvae of the Hymenoptera order ( ants, bees and wasps ) can appear like the caterpillars of the lepidoptera.

Most insects can easily be recognized to order such as Hymenoptera ( bees, wasps, and ants ) or Coleoptera ( beetles ).

For many species the dominant prey item are stinging members of the order Hymenoptera, namely wasps and bees.

The wasps are similarly dependent on their fig species in order to reproduce.

Unlike many other families in the order Hymenoptera, wasps in this family are solitary and nest alone.

Pollinators are often bees and wasps of the order Hymenoptera, and flies.

What emboldens you to assert that wasps are so hard to fool that the orchid's resemblance would have to be perfect in all dimensions in order to work?

The most common order of insects found here include Coleoptera ( beetles ), Diptera ( flies ), Hemiptera ( true bugs ) Homoptera ( leaf hoppers ), and Hymenoptera ( bees, wasps and ants ).

* Bee-a member of the order that includes ants and wasps

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants.

In some of the insects the organ is used merely to attach the egg to some surface, but in many parasitic species ( primarily in wasps and other Hymenoptera ) it is a piercing organ as well.

The sting of Hymenoptera ( wasps, hornets, bees, and some ants ) is also an ovipositor, in this case highly modified and associated with poison glands that are used to paralyze prey.

Silk production also occurs in Hymenoptera ( bees, wasps, and ants ), silverfish, mayflies, thrips, leafhoppers, beetles, lacewings, fleas, flies and midges.

Hymenoptera ( ants, bees and wasps ) comprise from 20 % to 96 % of all insects eaten, with honey bees comprising approximately one-third of the Hymenoptera.

For example, males of many species of Hymenoptera, including many hunting wasps, rely on freely flowering plants as sources of energy ( in the form of nectar ) and also as territories for meeting fertile females that visit the flowers.

Most important among invertebrate prey are insects, especially beetles ( Coleoptera ), crickets and grasshoppers ( Orthoptera ), and bumblebees and wasps ( Hymenoptera ).

Entomophily, pollination by insects, often occurs on plants that have developed colored petals and a strong scent to attract insects such as, bees, wasps and occasionally ants ( Hymenoptera ), beetles ( Coleoptera ), moths and butterflies ( Lepidoptera ), and flies ( Diptera ).

Insects such as beetles ( Coleoptera ), grasshoppers and crickets ( Orthoptera ), ants, wasps, and bees ( Hymenoptera ), and moths and caterpillars ( Lepidoptera ) are common prey items.

A few species, notably insects of the orders Hymenoptera ( ants, bees and wasps ) and Isoptera ( termites ) show an extreme form of sociality, involving highly organized societies, with individual organisms specialized for distinct roles.

Spiders have not, however, taken the final step into the eusociality of the social Hymenoptera ( ants, bees and wasps ) because there are no workers or soldiers ( no castes ) and all females are reproductive.

These superfamilies are regarded as the most primitive taxa within the Hymenoptera ( some going back 200 million years ), and one of the taxa within the Symphyta gave rise to the suborder Apocrita ( wasps, bees and ants-this group is considered monophyletic ).

In Hymenoptera ( ants, bees and wasps ), sex determination is by haplo-diploidy: the females are all diploid, the males are haploid.

Similar behavior is observed in other Hymenoptera including stingless bees, wasps, bumblebees and ants.

Dorsal ocelli are light-sensitive organs found on the dorsal ( top-most ) surface or frontal surface of the head of many insects, e. g. Hymenoptera ( bees, ants, wasps, sawflies ), Diptera ( flies ), Odonata ( dragonflies, damselflies ) and Orthoptera ( grasshoppers, locusts ).