Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life as helpless larvae. Wasp and bee larvae are essentially big stomachs with a mouth. They have no legs, and are stuck in place until they're grown.
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If you witness two insects flying towards you, the smaller one will be a wasp, and Wasps have smaller abdomens. The main body is black with spots of yellow and black. There isn’t a lot of hair around ...
Most people won't be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens. What is surprising, though, is that those big bees and wasps we see in the spring are the queens - not the ...