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What happens when shrewd solitary wasps kill mason bees

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When yellowjacket traps don’t work

1 year ago

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Vespid-19: the Asian giant hornet in North America

3 years ago

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Lessons from the year of the wasp

4 years ago

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The solitary great golden digger wasp

5 years ago

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If you thought swarm traps were for honey bees

5 years ago

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A delicious meal of wasp larvae

8 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Not all wasps are yellowjackets

9 years ago

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Great black wasp

9 years ago

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other pollinators • wasps

Regardless of dictionaries, we have in entomology a rule for insect common names that can be followed. It says: If the insect is what the name implies, write the two words separately; otherwise run them together. Thus we have such names as house fly, blow fly, and robber fly contrasted with dragonfly, caddicefly, and butterfly, because the latter are not flies, just as an aphislion is not a lion and a silverfish is not a fish. The honey bee is an insect and is preeminently a bee; “honeybee” is equivalent to “Johnsmith.”

—From Anatomy of the Honey Bee by Robert E. Snodgrass

The non-native European Honey Bee is the state insect of:

Arkansas
Georgia
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Not one native bee is a state insect. The closest relative of a North American native bee to make the list is the Tarantula Hawk Wasp, the state insect of New Mexico.

Minnesota now has a state bee as well as a state insect. Bombus affinis, the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee, has been so honored. Good work, Minnesota!

Connecticut’s state insect is the European “praying” mantis. Although they are beneficial insects, they are not native to North America.

Category - wasps

What happens when shrewd solitary wasps kill mason bees

When yellowjacket traps don’t work

Vespid-19: the Asian giant hornet in North America

Making a beeline for lunch

Lessons from the year of the wasp

The solitary great golden digger wasp

If you thought swarm traps were for honey bees

A delicious meal of wasp larvae

I’m stuck on you

Not all wasps are yellowjackets

Great black wasp

The forgotten wasp

Equal opportunity housing

A wispy water wasp

Green metallic cuckoo wasp