What do wasps eat? Detailed answer

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Almost all insects have curious ways of rearing their offspring, but few of them show such skill in this matter as wasps. Some wasps build little mud houses for their babies. Others make paper nests. Some dig holes in the ground, and some wasps gnaw holes in a tree. When the house is built, the mother wasp goes out in search of food in order to create supplies in the house.

Hungry wasps are very choosy in their diet; some only eat spiders, some beetles, others flies, and many wasps eat nothing but living food.

Females of each species travel long distances in search of the right insects. They then seize them with their strong jaws and gently insert a venomous stinger into the nerve centers of the insects. This poison does not kill, but only completely paralyzes the insect, and therefore its meat is kept fresh until the young wasps want to taste it.

Wasps belong to the same group of Hymenoptera as bees and ants. Their diverse species are divided into two groups. Some of them come together to build housing and provide food for their offspring. Single wasps exist on their own. These two groups differ in the position of the wings: collectivist wasps spread their wings like a fan, while solitary wasps lay them on their backs.

All wasps look alike. They have four transparent wings and three pairs of legs. Females have long thin stingers at the back of the body. Their mouths are adapted for both chewing and sucking, as wasps feed on fruit juices or other insects. Some wasps feed exclusively on honey.

Author: Likum A.

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They would look at both, but they would hardly have encountered at least something.

Contrary to what you've seen in bad sci-fi movies, asteroid belts are, for the most part, pretty deserted. Lively compared to the rest of space, but still deserted.

Generally speaking, the gap between large asteroids (capable of causing significant damage to a spacecraft) is approximately two million kilometers.

And although there are whole groups of asteroids called "families" - these are those that formed relatively recently from a larger celestial body - maneuvering inside the asteroid belt is not at all difficult. In fact, if you choose a completely random course and at the same time encounter at least one asteroid, you can consider yourself very lucky.

But if this happens, you will certainly want to give this asteroid a name.

To date, the International Astronomical Union has a special Committee on the Nomenclature of Small Celestial Bodies, consisting of fifteen members, responsible for overseeing the naming of the steadily expanding state of minor planets. As recent examples show, this is not at all such a serious occupation. Judge for yourself:

(15887) Daveclarke, (14965) Bonk, (18932) Robinhood, (69961) Milosevic, (2829) Bobbop, (7328) Seanconnery, (5762) Wenkee, (453) Tea, (3904) Honda, (17627) Humptybolt, (9941) Iguanodon, (9949) Brontosaurus, (9778) Isabellalende, (4479) Charlieparker, (9007) James Bond, (39415) Janestin, (11548) Jerry-Lewis, (19367) Pink Floyd, (5878) Charlene, ( 6042) Cheshire Cat, (4735) Gary, (3742) Sunshine, (17458) Dick, (1629) Pecker and (821) Fanny. (Bonk - "fuck" (in the most interesting sense of the word) wanky - "masturbate" Dick - in English both a male name and a "dick" pecker - "beak" and, again, "penis" fanny - " female ass" (if not worse).)

Smith, Jones, Brown, and Robinson are all official asteroid names, as are Bikki, Bass, Bok, Lick, Qui, Hippo, Mister Spock, Roddenberry, and Suissair.

Eccentricity in naming planets is nothing new. For example, Pluto was named Pluto in 1930 by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Oxford named Venetia Burney: her grandfather, then a librarian at Oxford University, passed the suggestion made by his granddaughter at breakfast to his good friend Herbert Hall Turner, Oxford professor of astronomy.

Perhaps 2003 UB313 will eventually be renamed Rupert, the name given by Douglas Adams to the tenth planet in the solar system in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It didn't happen either. Literally a day before the sudden death of Adams in 2001, another asteroid was named (18610) Arthur Dent. And now Adams has his own celestial body: (25924) Douglasadams.

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