Hymenoptera

Among the Diptera, Lucilia spp. are abundant, and among the Hymenoptera, honey bees ( Apis dorsata and A. cerana ) and the stingless bee genus Trigona are the major visitors.

Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species.

Identification of insects These 100 Trigonopterus species were described simultaneously using DNA barcoding Most insects can easily be recognized to order such as Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) or Coleoptera (beetles).

In many eusocial Hymenoptera species, the larvae are fed by female workers.

In many Hymenoptera, sex is actually determined by a single gene locus with many alleles.

In some cases the injection also introduces virus particles that suppress the host's immune system and prevent it from destroying the eggs. citation However, in virtually all stinging Hymenoptera, the ovipositor is no longer used for egg-laying.

In the eusocial Hymenoptera, the workers are exclusively female: males (drones) are haploid and develop from unfertilised eggs, while females (both workers and the queen) are diploid and develop from fertilised eggs.

Many other Hymenoptera other than bees consume pollen as adults, though only a small number feed on pollen as larvae (including some ant larvae).

The different species of honey bees are distinguished from all other bee species (and virtually all other Hymenoptera ) by the possession of small barbs on the sting, but these barbs are found only in the worker bees.

The result is reduced colony survival. citation Diet Different species of Hymenoptera show a wide range of feeding habits.

This unusual situation has been proposed as an explanation of the multiple independent evolutions of eusociality (arising at least nine separate times) within the Hymenoptera.