Watch Now: Wasps Do Surprisingly Cool Things Some Benefits of Wasps Paper wasps, hornets, and yellowjacketsall belong to the same family—the Vespidae—and they all provide extraordinarily important ecological services. Specifically, they help us through pollination,predation, and parasitism. Put simply...
Crane flies, such as the tiger crane fly, might also be confused with long-legged flies because of their similar appearance. The two, however, are different groups of insects. Long-legged flies belong to the family Dolichopodidae while crane flies belong to the family Tipulidae. The main visua...
Robber flies and wasps are both insects, but they belong to different orders. Robber flies (family Asilidae) are part of the order Diptera, while wasps belong to the order Hymenoptera. Robber flies: Medium to large-sized flies (3/8 to 1-1/8 inches) Gray to black, sometimes mimicking was...
Bee: Bees don’t want to use their stingers and the lose them and die when they do. They’ll only sting as a last resort if they or the nest is in immediate danger. Bees use their sting for protection where as wasps don’t. Wasp: Social wasps don’t seek people out to sting the...
Colorado Potato Beetles or potato beetles (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) belong to the nightshade or Solanaceae family and are endemic to the United States except for Alaska, California, Hawaii, and Nevada. Potato bugs barely reach an inch and have black vertical stripes with hard yellow-orange outer ...
“banned” 2 people. You can attack ideas and even public figures here but you can’t attack each other or my family or threaten my relationships with friends I’ve had for 50 years or clients I have had for 30. You CAN attack me—I’m used to that—but do that by “being a ...
So I started to research this question. I paged through all of my butterfly gardening books, but each and every one of them said the same thing: “Black Swallowtails use members of the carrot family (Apiaceae) including parsley, fennel, dill, Queen Anne’s Lace, and...
Research is being done especially in UK labs to test the potential healing properties on skin ailments such as psoriasis and eczema. So before you get busy frying up a “sausage fruit” for dinner, think again. Also in the Bignoniacea family is the Calabash Tree, native to the Philipines....
Family: Acrididae – Short-Horned Grasshoppers Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini – Giant Spur-Throated Grasshoppers Genus: Austracris Species: A. guttulosa – Spur-Throated Locust Reply Cesar Crash January 1, 2015 11:56 am Tropidacris ro me, but it is very close to Titanacris http://orthoptera...
Mole crickets belong to the family Gryllotalpidae. Over 100 species of mole crickets exist worldwide. These nocturnal insects mostly live underground and communicate by producing vibrations. These habits mirror the behavior of underground mammals like golden moles and mole rats. ...