Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies {Hymenoptera} have two wing pairs, front larger than back. They undergo complete metamorphosis. Females have one ovipositor, which can also sting.
Ants (Formicidae), bees (Apoidea), and wasps (Vespidae) form a suborder {Apocrita}, whose animals have wasp waists.
Female wasps {wasp} can remember their hole states and positions, for two or three days.
large wasp {hornet}.
Midwest and west USA wasp {mud dauber wasp} builds mud nests.
Small wasps {yellow jacket} can be yellow and black.
Insects {ant, insect} (Formicidae) can be wingless and live in colonies. Saharan desert ant (Cataglyphis fortis) tells direction by light polarization and tells distance by counting number of steps and adjusting for weight. Ants take dead ants out of the nest {necrophoresis}. Dolichodial and iridomyrmecin decrease after death. Other ants can detect ant dolichodial and iridomyrmecin and so do not take ants out of the nest.
Small red ants {Amazon ant} can take slaves.
Ants {army ant} can travel together and attack insects.
Red ants {red ant} can be medium size.
Sterile females {soldier ant} can have heavy jaws and armor.
sterile females {worker ant}.
Insects {bee} can beat wings at 200 beats per second, under muscle-tension control. Bees can calculate orientation over ground by angle Sun makes with horizon at highest point {azimuth system}, which varies over year.
Bees and ants have males {drone, arthropod}|.
Bombus bees {bumblebee} loudly vibrate wings and thorax to shake pollen from flower anthers {buzz pollination}. They push pollen along body into leg pollen holders.
Bees {honeybee} can make honey in colonies in hives. Honeybees do not vibrate wings or body. Colonies are dying at higher percentage now {colony collapse disorder}.
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