hymenoptera

• “And in the case of ants and other hymenoptera, they are highly successful. angryoldfatman: Kin altruism occurs, yes.”

  At What Level did this Evolve?

• “I've got half a mind to pop you one right in the thorax, and bust your hymenoptera.”

  Hands On: The Latest In Grips

• “Contribution a la connaissance des hymenoptera apoidea de Nouvelle-Caledonie et de leurs relations avec la flore butinee.”

  Biological diversity in New Caledonia

• “Way out back I discover a subterranean Yellow Jacket nest the quick and easy way; I mow over the entrance then get stung as I walk behind the mower into the stream of very pissed-off exiting hymenoptera.”

  Something ate the Yellow Jacket nest

• “Stood up again by that devious little hymenoptera, Avery!”

  Archive 2006-12-01

• “Some moths and hymenoptera accompanied the butterflies; and a fine beetle”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies.”

  HOTHOUSE

• “As they turned to pupæ he would die, and from caterpillar, or may be chrysalis, there would then issue, in place of gorgeous butterfly, a host of dingy hymenoptera.”

  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

• “And we never succeeded in shutting him up till Jeff dragged in the hymenoptera.”

  Herland

• “Now let us imagine such a man appointed, by reason of the original work he has done, to a chair of science in some university, with the task before him of doing further original research work with hymenoptera.”

  The Montessori Method

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