Hunting wasps are members of various taxa of the insect order Hymenoptera. Their habits and affinities vary in many ways, but all practise parental care...
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Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
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The emerald cockroach wasp or jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa) is a solitary wasp of the family Ampulicidae. It is known for its unusual reproductive behavior...
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Ammophila is the type genus of the subfamily Ammophilinae of the hunting wasp family Sphecidae. Ammophila is a large and cosmopolitan genus, with over...
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Ammophila sabulosa (redirect from Red-banded sand wasp)
red-banded sand wasp, is a species of the subfamily Ammophilinae of the solitary hunting wasp family Sphecidae, also called digger wasps. Found across Eurasia...
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Priocnemis monachus is a species of spider wasp endemic to New Zealand, where it is known as the black hunting wasp or ngaro wīwī. It hunts large tunnelweb...
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Agenioideus nigricornis (redirect from Redback spider-hunting wasp)
Agenioideus nigricornis, the redback spider-hunting wasp, is a species of spider wasp from the subfamily Pompilinae, found in Australia. It is a parasitoid...
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Philanthus nasalis (redirect from Antioch sphecid wasp)
Philanthus nasalis is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") that is endemic to Contra Costa County, California. Krombein, Karl V. (1979). "Philanthidae"...
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spiders can be attributed to spider-hunting wasps, especially Priocnemis monachus. These wasps are specialized for hunting large spiders, which they paralyze...
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Episyron rufipes (category Wasps described in 1758)
Episyron rufipes, the red-legged spider wasp, is a red and black or completely black spider-hunting wasp. 8–12.5 mm in length. Adults are mainly black...
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spider-hunting wasp of the family Pompilidae. Batozonellus lacerticida can reach a length of about 14 millimetres (0.55 in). These spider hunting wasps have...
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The bumblebeewolf (Philanthus bicinctus) is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") of North America. It makes deep nests in soil. Males are territorial...
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A sand wasp is a wasp of one of the following groups: Ammophila, a narrow-waisted genus of hunting wasps that often nests in sandy soil Bembicini, a tribe...
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Philanthus crabroniformis is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") of North America. The species primarily preys upon Halictidae. They nest in sandy...
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shoreline are home to a number of bee and wasp species including the large eumenid caterpillar hunting wasp, Delta dimidiatipenne and the blue banded...
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Philanthus politus is a white-striped species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf"). "Philanthus" (PDF), California Academy of Science, CAS, 2007-10-16 "Synonyms...
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Hornet (redirect from Vespa (wasp))
Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to yellowjackets, their close relatives. Some...
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Philanthus gloriosus is a species of bee-hunting wasp found west of the 100th meridian in North America, from Medicine Hat, Alberta south across the High...
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Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids...
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Philanthus coarctatus raptor is a subspecies of bee-hunting wasp, or beewolf, from Algeria and other parts of Northern Africa. Khedher, Hassib Ben; Yildirim...
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Philanthus multimaculatus is a species of bee-hunting wasp, or beewolf, found from British Columbia and Alberta south to Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi...
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Tachysphex nigerrimus (redirect from Black cockroach hunter wasp)
place of 20 contenders. This species is known as the black cockroach-hunting wasp or black cockroach hunter in English, and in Māori as ngaro wīwī (written...
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Mantis (section Diet and hunting)
as spiders, large species of hornets[broken anchor], and ants. Some hunting wasps, such as some species of Tachytes also paralyze some species of mantis...
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Ampulicidae (redirect from Cockroach wasp)
prey for their larvae. They are the most primitive family of sphecoid hunting wasps. They tend to have elongated jaws, pronounced neck-like constrictions...
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family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea. As a family, their biology ranges between parasitoid wasps and hunting wasps. Like most of the...
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Anoplius viaticus (redirect from Black-banded spider wasp)
heathland across most of Europe. A. viaticus is a large species of spider-hunting wasp and measures about 14 millimetres (0.55 in) in length. The head and thorax...
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Philanthus gibbosus, the hump-backed beewolf, is a species of bee-hunting wasp and is the most common and widespread member of the genus in North America...
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Philanthus coronatus is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") of Europe and the Middle East, of which there are three known subspecies: P. coronatus...
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Philanthus ventilabris is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") found throughout North America. It is a solitary species. "Synonyms for "Philanthus...
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Trypoxylon attenuatum is a species of spider hunting wasp exhibited to hunt L. sclopetarius. These wasps are normally found in Southern Europe and prey...
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