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Wonderful World of Wasps

Exhibition Iziko South African Museum

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

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Paper wasps are social, constructing communal paper nests from chewed up plant material and saliva. Larvae are fed on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars. Here a female of Ropalidia (Vespidae) holds a drop of liquid with her mandibles.

Photograph © Vida van der Walt


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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