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One of the Hymenoptera.

An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.

Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.

One of the Hymenoptera.

A hymenopterous insect of the Linnæan genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ (the honeybees), or family Andrenidæ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

e of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididæ. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.

One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon,

A Linnæan genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.

The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

arbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird. -- Golden wasp (Zoöl.), a bright-colored hymenopterous insect, of the family Chrysididæ. The colors are golden, blue, and green. -- Golden wedding. See under Wedding.

Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidæ, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.

The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

taceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.