hymenoptera

Not only are these all insects, they are all of the same order, hymenoptera, ie somewhat closely related.

Here's an alternate link to the paper that works for me: Are ants (hymenoptera, formicidae) capable of self recognition?

Both were male, reminiscent of the insect family of hymenoptera which produces male drones with no fertilization?

The Wikipedia article on Hymenoptera has a family tree that shows the relationship with beetles [3].

Also, there was a time when proto-hymenoptera were not eusocial, so how did they become eusocial?

Another weird body hack in Northern Australia Hymenoptera is the honey pot ant.

I wonder if every family/genus/species in Hymenoptera has these capabilities, including learning complex behavior.

For example, in hymenoptera (ants and wasps), males are born from unfertilized eggs, which results in a 1:3 ratio between females and males.

So it's going to be really interesting to see what comes out of genomics as applied to the Hymenoptera over the next decade or so - something else that's not rare in the literature is to encounter reclassifications and rearrangements of large branches of the family's taxonomic tree, as phylogenetic research heavily revises prior results.

Then I go look for more context, and find it's part of a thread about D&D(?) and hymenoptera, and it's epic, and a chunk of my morning is lost figuring out why and how this came to be.

> Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject, and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera [a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.

Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described.] I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to get stung, on purpose, by a majority (!!!) of stinging sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants out of 150,000+ known species.

This feature, which is distinctive to hymenopterans, could very reasonably have inspired the family name Hymenoptera, meaning "married-winged".

So what the pain experience is "like" for a hive-society animal like Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants), where caste roles are biologically determined, is impossible to say, if indeed there is any experience there.

That said, and to the point of your initial uncertainty, there has long been question over the presence of the "hymen-" radical in the family name Hymenoptera ("-ptera" meaning "winged", cf.

Hy (or “Hylang” for long; named after the insect order Hymenoptera, since Paul Tagliamonte was studying swarm behavior when he created the language) I'm spending my HN karma to make this petty comment that if the first sentence of your docs immediately opens up with the story of how you named your project, I instantly don't want to use it or read any more.

As a bit of context: Bees and wasps are in the taxonomic order Hymenoptera, which they also share with ants.

When they do you get hive organisms like naked mole rats or the Hymenoptera.

We studied the ultrastructure of the ultrablack cuticle in Traumatomutilla bifurca, an enigmatic and visually striking species of velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae).