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Examples
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And in the case of ants and other hymenoptera, they are highly successful. angryoldfatman: Kin altruism occurs, yes.
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I've got half a mind to pop you one right in the thorax, and bust your hymenoptera.
Hands On: The Latest In Grips BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Way out back I discover a subterranean Yellow Jacket nest the quick and easy way; I mow over the entrance then get stung as I walk behind the mower into the stream of very pissed-off exiting hymenoptera.
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Contribution a la connaissance des hymenoptera apoidea de Nouvelle-Caledonie et de leurs relations avec la flore butinee.
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Stood up again by that devious little hymenoptera, Avery!
Archive 2006-12-01 The Nag 2006
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Stood up again by that devious little hymenoptera, Avery!
Maybe Ants and Nags Just Aren't Meant To Be Together The Nag 2006
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Some moths and hymenoptera accompanied the butterflies; and a fine beetle
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Some moths and hymenoptera accompanied the butterflies; and a fine beetle
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On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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As they turned to pupæ he would die, and from caterpillar, or may be chrysalis, there would then issue, in place of gorgeous butterfly, a host of dingy hymenoptera.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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