Scientists have long known that the social insects in the order Hymenoptera–which includes ants, bees, and wasps–have an unusual mechanism for sex determination: Unfertilized eggs develop into males, ...

2024 Dartmouth Medal for Most Outstanding Reference Work (RUSA/ALA). ENTMAIN copy purchased from the Thompson Endowment. "In Hymenoptera, Marshall has applied his broad knowledge of insects to the ...

A GREAT number of books are published at presen relating to the more popular orders of insects, especially British butterflies and moths. Some entomologists however, devote their attention to the more ...

Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...