Wasp M1-25—the oldest recorded wasp: canadensis at 506 days old.
The earliest wasps, known from the mid-Triassic (about 240 million years ago), were rather small, too.
Archibald, a paleoentomologist with the Royal B.C. Museum and Simon Fraser University, had discovered a 53-million-year-old species of giant wasp, which he dubbed Ypresiosirex orthosemos.
Eighty years ago the Russian entomologist Andrey Martynov -- well known for naming the two major divisions of winged insects Palaeoptera and Neoptera, stressing the importance of the wing folding pattern for insect evolution -- suggested that wasps had arisen from snakefly-like ancestors.
Digby Baltzell coined the term WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) in a 1964 book, prompting a letter from Andrew Hacker, who said that he had used the acronym in a 1957 article.
The European wasp was first found in Australia in 1959 after being introduced from overseas. This non-native species has become established in Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.
Jacqueline Cochran, cosmetics executive and world-famous aviatrix, was the product of obscure origins. Born Bessie Pittman about 1906 in northwest Florida, she was the youngest of five children of Ira and Mary (Grant) Pittman.
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Genetic analysis revealed that the particles harbored mostly wasp DNA and didn't seem to contain any of the proteins most viruses use to replicate. These two observations led some researchers to argue that the particles were actually "genetic secretions" of the wasp itself rather than an independent virus.
In the alternate future of the "MC2" universe, Henry Pym and Janet Pym are parents of two children (Hope Pym and Henry Pym, Jr.). Giant-Man later perishes on the last mission of the original Avengers, and the Wasp dies of a broken heart.
Description. Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia) and the subspecies Japanese giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia japonica) and are the world's largest hornet.
Scientists confirm the biggest bug to ever exist — an ancient millipede "as big as a car" Before dinosaurs, it was giant bugs that roamed the Earth, or at least northern England, scientists say.
The largest insect ever know to inhabit prehistoric earth was a dragonfly, Meganeuropsis permiana. This insect lived during the late Permian era, about 275 million years ago.
Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death.
The smallest known adult insect is a parasitic wasp, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis. These tiny wasps are often called fairyflies. Males are wingless, blind and measure only 0.005 inches (0.127 mm) long. As larvae, they feed inside the eggs of other insects.
The queen wasp is essentially the leader of the nest, and her main role is to lay eggs. She has bright yellow and black stripes, with a triangle-shaped head, a distinctive 'waist' and a sharp pointy sting.
While no wasps are known to lay eggs in humans (although some flies do), they have inspired films like the Alien franchise and the recently released monster survival video game House of Ashes.
In wasps that reproduce sexually, females originate from fertilised egg cells while males are produced from unfertilised egg cells (haplo-diploidy). In the case of asexual wasps, on the other hand, the females give birth only to daughters, without fertilization.
Just how smart are wasps? According to a study done last year at the University of Michigan they are smarter than we thought. It turns out they use a form of logical reasoning. For thousands of years we thought only humans were capable of such thinking.
Megalara garuda, colloquially referred to as the "King of Wasps", is a large wasp and the only species in the genus Megalara, family Crabronidae, tribe Larrini. The species M. garuda is only known from the Mekongga Mountains in the southeastern part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Cuckoo wasps from a number of different species are found all over Australia, with Stilbum cyanurum (the one pictured above) being the largest and arguably the most beautiful.
Cuckoo wasps are interesting insects widely recognized for their beautiful colors. You can spot them in rainbow or shiny metallic colors, mostly blue and green.
Insects like dragonflies, beetles, and centipedes eat wasps. Many wasps fall into the hands of predators like dragonflies, centipedes, hoverflies, beetles, spiders, moths, praying mantis, and robber flies.
The pain from a wasp sting is similar to that of a bee sting. However, some people may have a more severe reaction to a wasp sting than a bee sting, and a small number of people may even go into anaphylactic shock.
Additionally, in the comics, the Wasp has the ability to shrink and grow in size, as well as fly using her wings. In the MCU, Hope has these abilities, but also has a blasters built into her suit.