Definition of Order hymenoptera

1. Noun. An order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc..


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Hymenoptera

order Ginkgoales
order Gnetales
order Graminales
order Gregarinida
order Gruiformes
order Guttiferales
order Gymnophiona
order Haemosporidia
order Haplosporidia
order Heliozoa
order Helotiales
order Hemiptera
order Heterosomata
order Heterotrichales
order Hymenogastrales
order Hymenoptera
order Hypericales
order Hypermastigina
order Hypocreales
order Hyracoidea
order Ichthyosauria
order Ictodosauria
order Insectivora
order Insessores
order Isoetales
order Isopoda
order Isoptera
order Isospondyli
order Juglandales
order Jungermanniales

Literary usage of Order hymenoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... order hymenoptera THIS great order of insects, which contains the bees, wasps, ants, gall-flies, saw-flies, ichneumon-flies and related forms is ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"Order HYMENOPTERA. (Bees, Wasps, Ants, Saw-flies, etc.) This, of all the orders, is the one which may be said to be wholly beneficial to man, for while, ..."

3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"(moth) order hymenoptera THE BEES Our notes on the Hymenoptera are very few indeed. These, the most highly organized of insects, have the least to do with ..."

4. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"Many other families of flies also contain insect-feeding species, but are not of sufficient significance to mention here. order hymenoptera Wasps, ants, ..."

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