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bumblebee sawfly honeybees: queen, worker, drone
Why bees are important to the environment
army ants haplodiploidy in bees thread-waisted wasp ichneumon leaf-cutting bees honeybee life cycle
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Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
wasp. Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antennas and compound eyes drink nectar from a cherry. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees. Pollination
Know Your Bugs Quiz
Nine-Banded Armadillo.
A Is for Animal Quiz
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
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Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) photographed in the Midwest in 2017. endangered species insect pollination
Incredible Facts About Bees
Wasp and bee, insect
What’s the Difference Between a Bee and a Wasp?
Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of yellow fever, dengue, and dengue hemorrhagic fever.
10 Questions About Insects Answered
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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters
Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
Solar Eclipse, Eclipse, Solar Flare, Outer Space, Astronomy
What Causes Lunar and Solar Eclipses?
Solar eclipse of the sun.
The Sun Was Eaten: 6 Ways Cultures Have Explained Eclipses
Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?

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Why bees are important to the environment
Bees may be a little scary, but a world without them would be much scarier.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn how invasive species and habitat destruction have threatened Hawaii's yellow-faced bees
Learn about conservation efforts to help the endangered yellow-faced bee, whose populations...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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bumblebee
Bumblebee (Bombus)
Lilyan Simmons
sawfly
Sawfly (Cimbex)
William E. Ferguson
honeybees: queen, worker, drone
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
army ants
Army ants (Eciton) do not build nests. Instead, they form clustered masses...
E.S. Ross
haplodiploidy in bees
Haplodiploidy in bees.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
thread-waisted wasp
Thread-waisted wasp (Sceliphron).
William E. Ferguson
ichneumon
Ichneumon (family Ichneumonidae, order Hymenoptera).
J. Simon—Bruce Coleman Inc.
leaf-cutting bees
Leaf-cutting bees (Anthidium manicatum), also known as wool carder bees,...
M.W.F. Tweedie—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
honeybee life cycle
Life cycle of the honeybee.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
honeybee dance movements
Dance movements of the honeybee: (left) round dance and (right) tail-wagging dance.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
velvet ant
Velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)
Walter Dawn
honeybee body plan
Body plan of a honeybee.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
mossyrose gall wasp
Mossyrose gall wasp (Diplolepis rosae).
Copyright Pascal Goetgheluck/Ardea London
The bumblebee Bombus vosnesenskii is a social hymenopteran species.
(bottom left) E.S. Ross
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