A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted...
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R-4360 Wasp Major is an American 28-cylinder four-row radial piston aircraft engine designed and built during World War II. At 4,362.5 cu in (71.5 L),...
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Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently considered a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the...
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The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is an American twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a displacement of 2,800 cu in (46 L)...
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USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and...
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Faso proposal; named after the Black Volta, the largest river. // Cetus WASP-71 Mpingo IAU new 2019 Tanzanian proposal; named after Dalbergia melanoxylon...
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The Pratt & Whitney Wasp was the civilian name of a family of air-cooled radial piston engines developed in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The Pratt & Whitney...
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Wide Angle Search for Planets (redirect from Super wasp)
WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets...
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The Wasp (Janet van Dyne) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee, Ernie Hart, and Jack Kirby...
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WASP-132 is a star located about 403 light-years (124 parsecs) away in the constellation of Lupus. It is known to be orbited by two exoplanets and one...
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The Westland Wasp is a small 1960s British turbine-powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same...
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mineral WASP-71 (Mpingo) 2.258 1.5 2.9036747 0.04631 transit 2012 700 1.572 6050 2019 NameExoWorlds Tanzania Maeping Ping River in Thailand WASP-50 (Chaophraya)...
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Wasps Rugby Football Club was a professional rugby union team. They last played in Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby, until being suspended...
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The median wasp (Dolichovespula media) is a species of social wasp of the family Vespidae found throughout Europe and Asia. It builds aerial paper nests...
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WASP-121b, formally named Tylos, is an exoplanet orbiting the star WASP-121. WASP-121b is the first exoplanet found to contain water in an extrasolar...
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Monobia quadridens (redirect from Four-toothed mason wasp)
four-toothed mason wasp, is a species of solitary potter wasp (subfamily Eumeninae) found in North America. It grows to a wingspan of 18 mm (0.71 in), and feeds...
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on board the USS Wasp and in April 1942 supported Operation Calendar to deliver Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft to Malta. Wasp was transferred to...
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Cyclone. Equipped with floats and powered by the 525 hp (391 kW) S1D1 Wasp, the Super 71 prototype, CF-AUJ, flew for the first time on 31 October 1934. After...
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Sphecidae (redirect from Thread-waisted wasp)
a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly...
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Vespula vulgaris (redirect from Common Wasp)
the European wasp, but the same name is used for the species Vespula germanica or German wasp. In 2010, the ostensible Vespula vulgaris wasps in North America...
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List of stars in Cetus (redirect from 71 Ceti)
4.81 185 G5V has a planet (b) WASP-71 01h 57m 03.0s +00° 45′ 32″ 10.57 652 F8 Mpingo, has a transiting planet (b) WASP-20 00h 20m 38.54s −23° 56′ 08.6″...
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots' organization...
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Ichneumonidae (redirect from Scorpion wasp)
Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera...
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Fairyfly (redirect from Fairy wasp)
The Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies or fairy wasps, are a family of chalcidoid wasps found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions throughout...
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J0108−1431 SDSS J001820.5−093939.2 SDSS J0106−1000 ULAS J003402.77−005206.7 WD J2356−209 WASP-20 WASP-26 WASP-44 WASP-71 (Mpingo) WISE J0254+0223 WHL0137-LS...
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pain level of 3 are wasps, including the neotropical red paper wasp, the red-headed paper wasp, and Klug's velvet ant (a wingless wasp and not a true ant)...
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pressurized cockpit. Power would be provided by two Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines each driving a set of pusher contra-rotating propellers...
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J0108−1431 SDSS J001820.5−093939.2 SDSS J0106−1000 ULAS J003402.77−005206.7 WD J2356−209 WASP-20 WASP-26 WASP-44 WASP-71 (Mpingo) WISE J0254+0223 WHL0137-LS...
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Sphecius speciosus (category Biological pest control wasps)
Sphecius speciosus, the eastern cicada-killer wasp, is a large, solitary digger wasp species in the family Bembicidae. They are so named because they hunt...
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