A bumble bee (Bombus sp.) comes in for a landing on fall goldenrod. Urbana, Illinois, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Hymenoptera

is a diverse order of insects that contains wasps, bees, and sawflies. Many species are parasitic on other insects and are important in biological control of pests. Several groups have evolved complex social behavior, particularly in the bees and ants.

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Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp, one of the largest and most common insects in North America.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A bumble bee (Bombus sp.) comes in for a landing on fall goldenrod.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Loboscelidia is an unusual tropical cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae: Loboscelidiinae). This photograph may be the only ever taken of a living example.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

(thanks to NCSU and Lynn Kimsey for the identification)

A Pison sp. mud wasp (Crabronidae). The sealed cells contain paralyzed spiders that will serve as food to her offspring.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

A Pison sp. mud wasp (Crabronidae) nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Breaking open the sealed mud cell of a Pison mud wasp (Crabronidae) reveals a cache of paralyzed spiders. By not killing the spiders outright, the wasp's larvae can eat them before they start to rot.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

A wasp egg (Pison sp., Crabronidae) on a paralyzed spider.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Asobara citri (Braconidae: Alysiinae) is a parasitoid of drosophilid fruit flies.

Laboratory culture at Emory University, Georgia, USA

A bumble bee (Bombus sp.) comes in for a landing on fall goldenrod.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A bumble bee (Bombus sp.) comes in for a landing on fall goldenrod.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A bumble bee (Bombus sp.) comes in for a landing on fall goldenrod.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Canon EOS 7D |

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Original size: 3961x2641 |

Current: 800x534 |

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Keywords: flight bees bumble bee bombus pollination hymenoptera

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