9.5 Flashcards
Membrane wings most social insects
Hymenoptera
Live in large of at least 1 million all have jobs
Social Insects
Live in every area of the world give us honey
Honeybees
Lays the eggs and is the leader
Queen
Fertilize the queen bees eggs
Drones
Work to find nectar and make honey
Worker bees
A defense mechanism on the bottom of the worker bees abdomen
Stinger
The largest common bee the queen can live through the winter
Bumblebee
Either paper wasps, hornets or yellow jackets
Social wasps
Do not live in organized groups a female, solitary wasp may build a nest consisting of several cells
Solitary wasps
Most highly organized social insects
Ants
Resemble bees in both appearance and behavior the lifecycle of social are closely followed of the bumblebee
Wasps
Specialized workers equipped with lawn, large mandible that may be used in fighting for the colony
Soldier ants
King Solomon’s advice to lazy people probably refers to these ants which really do prepare their food in the summer
Harvests ants
Fear on protect aphids in order to milk them for food. One commentary is the cornfield aunt which tends to herd of corn root but this specific dairy drinking aunt is called a
Dairy ants
Does not have any permanent home, but spends its life wandering
Army ants
Small mounds of soil with holes at the center looks like a volcano and has many rooms in the dirt
Aunt homes
