In the vast realm of insects, certain beetles, mites, and other insects—including bees, ants, and wasps—use a unique system of sex determination known as haplodiploidy. In this system, the sexual ...

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SIR JOHN LUBBOCK has done well to gather all the results of his serially published observations on the social hymenoptera in one treatise, and to bring out the treatise in the International ...

The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ... when ant ancestors diverged from the same group that would give rise to wasps and bees. It wasn’t until after an asteroid strike ...

"What makes this discovery particularly interesting is that it belongs to the extinct 'hell ant,' known ... Hymenoptera (which also includes bees and wasps). Ants are thought to have evolved ...