Re:(TFT) Hymenopteran Version

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

  Whoops.  Blew the formating on that one.  This should be easier on the 
eyes.

  David Michael Grouchy II

order: Hymenoptera
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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)\
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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.
  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.
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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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