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the nests of other wasps. Many of the solitary wasps are parasitoidal, meaning they lay eggs on or in other insects (any life stage from egg to adult) and...

Behavior in Insects and Arachnids. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tallamy, D.W.; Wood, T.K. 1986. "Convergence patterns in subsocial insects". Ann Rev...

of insects. Their purposes include hosting pollinators. Many insect hotels are used as nest sites by insects including solitary bees and solitary wasps...

animal species. The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through...

sweat bees – are solitary. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering...

insect orders, including hymenopterans, termites, thrips, aphids, and beetles. The order Hymenoptera contains the largest group of eusocial insects,...

Hymenoptera that were primarily solitary, the pain alone would allow them the chance to escape. Furthermore, solitary insects do not provide a high energy...

and shrubs, before sealing the captured insects inside the nest's cells. The larvae then feed upon these insects, before emerging. "Abispa ephippium (Fabricius...

honey before taking it back to the nest. Australian bees are mostly solitary insects. A female bee will build a nest with the aid of "workers". Native Australian...

in comparison to the populations of other insects, representing only about 1% of fossil evidence of insects in the era. Ants became dominant after adaptive...

is a species of locust found in India and southeast Asia. Usually a solitary insect, only in India has it has exhibited swarming behaviour. The last plague...

orchard bees, squash bees, and solitary bees. Where the same plants have non-bee pollinators such as birds or other insects like flies, these are also indicated...

of the insects, further plagues occurred in the last two decades of the 20th century. The African migratory locust has two phases, a solitary one, where...

grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they become more abundant and...

of their larvae in that they capture prey, usually insects, to feed their larvae. Whether solitary or social, most species construct some form of protection...

It can exist in two phases, solitary and gregarious. The solitary adults are either green or brown, but as the insects become more crowded together,...

species preferentially use hollow stems or holes in wood made by wood-boring insects. Species of the genus include the orchard mason bee O. lignaria, the blueberry...

The solitary sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) is a small shorebird. The genus name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus...

the context of development, may be composed of two or more unitary (or solitary) organisms or be modular organisms. Unitary organisms have determinate...

Jurassic. Ichneumonoids are solitary insects, and the vast majority are parasitoids; the larvae feed on or in another insect until it finally dies. Most...