Hymenoptera (Part 2)

Natural History of Insects

Entomology 10
3/11/2015

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Cumulative Final Exam

Saturday March 14th
11:30am-2:30 pm
50 questions
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What insect vectors these diseases?

Typhus
Chagas
Pierces Disease
Plague
Leishmania
River Blindness
African Sleeping Sickness
Yellow Fever
Lymphatic Filariasis
Malaria
Dengue
West Nile Virus
Chikungunya

Solitary Bees
While honeybees are eusocial, most bees are actually solitary! Examples

Bumblebees
Eusocial, but colonies much smaller than honeybees

Natural/Wild Pollinators

Red Velvet Ants

Actually wasps not ants!

Cow Killer Ant

Velvet Ant Defensive Sound

Mud Daubers

Mud Dauber Nests

Mud Daubers and Spiders

Vespidae

Yellowjackets

Yellow Jacket Nests

Yellow Jacket Around Food

Nuisance
around food
stuffs
especially
in late
summer
and early
fall

Nests
made of
scavenge
d wood
products

Paper Wasps

Paper Wasp Nests

Paper Wasp Face

Recognition

Video on Paper Wasps

Hornets

Very Aggressive

Wasp Mimics
A Wasp Model and 5 Mimics

Cicada Killers

Cicada Killers

Tarantula Hawks

Tarantula Hawks with Prey

Tarantula Hawk vs Tarantula

Most Painful Stings?

Tarantula Hawk

Ants

Ants are Eusocial

Ant Nests

Making Casts of Ant Nests

Ant Trail
Trail Pheromone

Ant Stingers and Stinging Postures

Army Ants

Army Ants Attack

Leafcutter Ants

Fire Ants

Slavemaking Ants

Protector Ants

Acacia Ants Stop Elephants