Re:(TFT) Hymenopteran Version

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

All,
  I've been filling out some lists of gestation rates for various animals.  
I have some small data on hymenopterans.  Including some of their 
reproductive rates, and time to maturity.  Here is the dry, black & white, 
unfinished work sheet for them.

  David Michael Grouchy II

order: Hymenoptera

ants
	pharaoh ant (monomorium pharaonis):
		Pharoaoh ants progress through the following stages
		1) progress from eggs (5-6 days)
		2) multiple larval stages (22-24 days)
		3) pupal stage (9-12 days)
		4) adult ants total 38-45 days to mature
(+4-5 days for sexual maturity)
			females live up to 39 weeks and lay 400 eggs
			workers only live up to 10 weeks
	carpenter ant (camponotus pennsylvanicus):
		new queens bite off their own wings, burrow into wet wood,
		 and spend the rest of their life laying eggs (15-25 years,
		 laying 70,000 fertilized eggs)  She lays 15-20 eggs the first year,
		 up to 30 eggs the second.  Larval stages take 60 days to maturity.
	Odorous house ant (Tapinoma sessile):
		Each female in the nest lays one egg a day, development time
		 (egg to adult is 34-83 days)  Queens live several years.
	pavement ant (tetramorium caespitum):
		queen produces 5-20 eggs per day.
		Three larval stages takes about 40 days.
	fire ant (wasmannia auropunctata):
		Queen lives 2-8 years.  Egg to adult in 30 days.  Workers live 180 days.
	argentine ant (linepithema humile):
		  Eggs are laid in summer, egg to adult in about 74 days
	theif ant (solenopsis molesta):
		Like to tunnel into nests of larger ants
		Queens lay an average of 105 eggs, egg to larvae (16-28 days)
		larvae to mature (21 days)\

wasps
	Symphyta: (sawfly, including some mimic wasps)
	firyflies (family mymeridae):
		 the smallest of all 0.5mm
	yellow jackets ():
		nest in ground or papery structures in trees
	parasitica (parasitic wasp) (diapriidae cinetus, cypripedium fasciculatum, 
diptera sciaridae):
		Eat other insects, lay eggs in  body of victim (basis of movie Alien).
		embryo to larvae in about 30 days.
		larvae mature in 40 days.
		after 5-6 days gnaw their way out of host.
	hornet (dolchovespula maculata):
		queen and 200-400 infertile female workers
		in late summer: males & reproductive females
	spider wasps (pompilidae cryptocheilus):
	trantula hawks (genus: pepsis):
	chalcid wasps (perilampus hyalinus):
	cuckoo wasp (chrysis coerulans):
	gall wasp (antistrophus rufus):
	potter wasps (vespidae abispa):
	sand wasp (sphecidae bembix, sphecidae sceliphron):
	velvet ants / cow killers (dsymutilla aureola pacifica):
		actually a wingless wasp, they look like an ant with a fur coat.
bees
	leafcutting bee (megachile rotundata):
	honey bee (apis mellifera, apis cerana, apis koschevnikovi, apis florea,
		 apis andreniformis, apis andreniformis, apis dorsata, apis laboriosa):
		Queen can exceed 1500 eggs a day.  Egg to adult: for queen (16 days),
		 worker (21 days), and drone (24 days).
		Queen lays eggs at intervals, producing colonies of 60-80,000.
		Life span is 2-3 years for a queen.  Drones die after mating.
	digger bee (southeastern bluebery: habropoda laboriosa,
		 pacific sand dune: habropoda miserabilis,
		 pallid bee: centris pallida):
	mason bee (osmia lignaria, osmia cornuta, osmia cornifrons, osmia 
ribifloris)):
	orchid bee (euglossa apidae, eulaema apidae, exaraete apidae):
	sweat bee (dialictus zephrum, nomia melanderi):
	bumble bee (bombus terrestris):
	carpenter bee (xylocopa virginica, xylocopa pubescens, xylocopa 
tabaniformis):
		 egg to adult in 84-99 days


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