Wasp Nests and Bee Hives
How can you tell the difference between a yellowjacket and a hornet? And how much cosmic XP do you need to evolve a wasp into a bee? Follow the insect that ...
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[INTRO] It's summer! And there you are, exploring the great outdoors and suddenly you hear a buzz, see a flash of yellow and black and--yeah! You've been stung! Was it a bee or wasp or a yellow jacket or hornet? If you didn't get a good look at the tiny attacker, you could always try following a home, You know, carefully. Because you can learn a lot about certain kinds of stinging insects by looking at their nests. First up you should know that all wasps and bees belong to the Hymenoptera Order of insects. And bees actually evolved from wasps sometime around a hundred and thirty million years ago. This probably happened when a solitary female wasp somehow, maybe even accidentally, introduced pollen to her personal nest while, bringing insect prey back for her larva. Pollen,...
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[INTRO] It's summer! And there you are, exploring the great outdoors and suddenly you hear a buzz, see a flash of yellow and black and--yeah! You've been stung! Was it a bee or wasp or a yellow jacket or hornet? If you didn't get a good look at the tiny attacker, you could always try following a home, You know, carefully. Because you can learn a lot about certain kinds of stinging insects by looking at their nests. First up you should know that all wasps and bees belong to the Hymenoptera Order of insects. And bees actually evolved from wasps sometime around a hundred and thirty million years ago. This probably happened when a solitary female wasp somehow, maybe even accidentally, introduced pollen to her personal nest while, bringing insect prey back for her larva. Pollen,...
