#order_Hymenoptera__Hymenoptera  an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.
  supertype:  #animal_order  the order of animals
  member of:  #class_Insecta
  member:  #hymenopterous_insect__hymenopterousinsect__hymenopteran__hymenopteron__hymenopter  insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing
  member:  #superfamily_Apoidea__Apoidea  bees
     member:  #bee  any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
     member:  #queen_bee__queenbee  fertile egg-laying female bee
     member:  #worker_bee  sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive
     member:  #family_Apidae__Apidae  honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
        member:  #genus_Apis__Apis  type genus of the Apidae: honeybees
           member:  #honeybee__Apis_mellifera  social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
        member:  #genus_Xylocopa__Xylocopa  carpenter bees
           member:  #carpenter_bee__carpenterbee  large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems
        member:  #genus_Bombus__Bombus  bumblebees
           member:  #bumblebee__humblebee  robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
        member:  #genus_Psithyrus__Psithyrus  a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste
           member:  #cuckoo-bumblebee  a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees
     member:  #family_Andrenidae__Andrenidae  a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground
        member:  #genus_Andrena  a solitary burrowing short-tongued bee
           member:  #andrena__andrenid__mining_bee  a bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena
     member:  #family_Halictidae__Halictidae  a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture
        member:  #nomia__genusnomia  a genus of bee; some are important pollinators of legumes
           member:  #Nomia_melanderi__alkali_bee  a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
     member:  #family_Megachilidae__Megachilidae  leaf-cutting and mason bees
        member:  #genus_Megachile__Megachile  type genus of the Megachilidae: leaf-cutting bees
           member:  #leaf-cutting_bee__leaf-cutter__leaf-cutter_bee  bee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest
        member:  #mason_bee__masonbee  any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand
        member:  #genus_Anthidium__Anthidium  potter bees
           member:  #potter_bee  solitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant
  member:  #family_Vespidae__Vespidae  an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps
     member:  #vespid_wasp__vespid  mostly social nest-building wasps
     member:  #genus_Vespa__Vespa  type genus of the Vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets
     member:  #genus_Vespula__Vespula  sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps
        member:  #common_wasp__Vespula_vulgaris  a variety of vespid wasp
        member:  #yellow_jacket__yellow_hornet__Vespula_maculifrons  small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground
     member:  #genus_Polistes__Polistes  a genus of Vespidae
        member:  #Polistes_annularis  a variety of paper wasp
     member:  #genus_Eumenes__Eumenes  mason wasps
        member:  #mason_wasp__masonwasp  any of various solitary wasps that construct nests of hardened mud for their young
        member:  #potter_wasp  any of various solitary wasps that construct vase-shaped cells of mud for their eggs
  member:  #superfamily_Sphecoidea__Sphecoidea  families Sphecidae and Stizidae
     member:  #sphecoid_wasp__sphecoid  any of various solitary wasps
     member:  #family_Sphecidae__Sphecidae  mud daubers; some digger wasps
        member:  #genus_Sceliphron__Sceliphron  mud daubers
           member:  #mason_wasp.sphecoid_wasp__masonwasp  solitary wasp that constructs nests of hardened mud or clay for the young
        member:  #mud_dauber__muddauber  wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae
     member:  #family_Stizidae__Stizidae  cicada killers
        member:  #genus_Sphecius__Sphecius  large solitary wasps: cicada killer
           member:  #cicada_killer__Sphecius_speciosis  large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas
  member:  #family_Cynipidae__Cynipidae  a family of Hymenoptera
     member:  #cynipid_gall_wasp__gall_wasp__gallfly__cynipidwasp  small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
     member:  #genus_Cynips__Cynips  type genus of the Cynipidae: gall wasps
     member:  #genus_Amphibolips__Amphibolips  cynipid gall wasps, especially causing oak-apple galls
     member:  #genus_Andricus__Andricus  cynipid gall wasps, chiefly affecting oaks
  member:  #family_Chalcididae__Chalcididae__Chalcidae__family_Chalcidae  an arthropod family including: chalcidflies
     member:  #chalcid_fly__chalcidfly__chalcid__chalcid_wasp__chalcidwasp  any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects
     member:  #strawworm__jointworm  larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains
     member:  #genus_Chalcis__Chalcis  type genus of the Chalcididae
        member:  #chalcis_fly__chalcisfly  a variety of chalcid fly
  member:  #family_Ichneumonidae__Ichneumonidae  ichneumon flies
     member:  #ichneumon_fly__ichneumonfly  hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae
  member:  #family_Tenthredinidae__Tenthredinidae  sawflies
     member:  #sawfly  insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
     member:  #genus-Fenusa__Fenusa  birch leaf miner
  member:  #family_Formicidae__Formicidae  ants
     member:  #ant__emmet__pismire  social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
     member:  #genus_Monomorium__Monomorium  a genus of Formicidae
        member:  #pharaoh_ant__pharaohant__pharaoh's_ant__pharaoh'sant__Monomorium_pharaonis  small red ant of warm regions; a common household pest
        member:  #little_black_ant__Monomorium_minimum  tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food
     member:  #subfamily_Dorylinae__Dorylinae  army ants
        member:  #army_ant__driver_ant__legionary_ant__legionaryant  tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
     member:  #genus_Camponotus__Camponotus  carpenter ants
        member:  #carpenter_ant__carpenterant  ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs
     member:  #genus_Solenopsis__Solenopsis  fire ants
        member:  #fire_ant  omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
     member:  #genus_Formica__Formica  type genus of the Formicidae
        member:  #wood_ant__Formica_rufa  reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands
        member:  #Formica_fusca  an ant frequently enslaved
        member:  #sanguinary_ant__Formica_sanguinea  slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
     member:  #genus_Myrmecia__Myrmecia  bulldog ants
        member:  #bulldog_ant__bulldogant  any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia
     member:  #genus_Polyergus__Polyergus  Amazon ants
        member:  #Amazon_ant__Polyergus_rufescens  small reddish slave-making ant species

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