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It happened again about 120 or a 140 million years ago when some solitary wasps began creating little simple, primitive nests, or hives.
Once several wasps were all together in the same hive, they had no choice but to cooperate, because pretty soon they were locked into competition with other hives.
These early wasps gave rise to the bees and the ants that have covered the world and changed the biosphere.
The eggs hatched and the young wasps devoured the caterpillar alive before bursting out of its body.
Some of the wasps seemed to stay behind and controlled it into defending their siblings which are metamorphosing into adults within those cocoons.
This system is called a haplodiploid system, and we see it not only in ants, but also in other highly social insects like bees and wasps.
Even some plants use mimicry: there are orchids that look and smell like female wasps to attract hapless males, who end up pollinating the plant.
And when Marwood made the jump, he was covered with wasps stinging him in the face and eyes.
But the wasps are actually vital to this ecosystem.
Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens.
But with summer over, the usual sources run dry, and the foraging wasps start taking more aggressive risks.
But above, a swarm of reproductive wasps has successfully mated.
And he asked me how I had made the house for those wasps, because he had never seen one this big.
And I told him, "You know, Cody, the wasps actually made that."
Now, I hate wasps.
That's a wasps' nest.
And in 30,000 square meters of state-of-the-art greenhouses, there, we are mass-producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc.
Then came a time when he attracted negative publicity as much as lemonade attracts wasps.
There are some truly great scenes: Eugene's sudden confrontations first with his gold-digging children's tv host girlfriend Virginia (an acidly pert Lois Chiles), then with his children; William S. Burroughs taking target practice in the barn and telling a story about a mysterious Jim; Maureen's boyfriend Chris proving himself by battling a shed full of wasps cloaked in a tablecloth and doily and old fedora; Howdy, Violet, Maureen and Chris all sitting on the couch (the latter three in appropriately lightweight summer garments, the former in a red blazer and black leather rock'n'roll gear) staring at images of deserts on the huge tv, and contemplating the future (the images were done by Bill Viola, who did the backdrop video installation for Nine Inch Nails' last tour).
In the first one it was mainly giant rats, but there were some wasps and a giant chicken too.
Also, the beautiful effects used to create the illusion of millions of wasps sells easily and was revolutionary at the time.
Why are there only WASPs on this ark?
Sometimes numbingly mediocre movie about a bunch of guys and a gal in the jungle, punctuated by giant wasps who attack the actors.
I liked the wasps and there was a centipede and a giant chicken too, but after the wasps are destroyed there is nothing else but the stupid rats.
Jim Davis plays a scientist who sends some animals, a few wasps in particular, into space to see how they fare under radiation.
Alas, some wasps don't return and turn to gigantic proportions somewhere in Western Africa.
Despite the wasps and their infrequent screen time, the movie has the look and feel of a very cheaply-made film yet is able to tell a decent...okay, almost decent story.
A testing rocket containing wasps more than exceeds its flight limits, but lands in a mystery location.
When giant wasps are reported terrorizing natives near the location of Green Hell in Africa, Brady and fellow scientist Dan Morgan(Robert Griffin)fly TWA to Africa to investigate.
Maybe these giant wasps are related to the cosmic radiation picked in deep space flight.