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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 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.

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

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.

One of the Hymenoptera.

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

It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. [See Illust. under Labium, and Hymenoptera.]

a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.

A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvæ and pupæ of insects.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.