Parts of Wasps
The part of the wasp that injects venom
Huxley
What is the stinger?
The cells in the comb of the wasp nests are this shape.
Harvey
What is a hexagon?
The way that venom is injected into the body.
Kamila
What is a sting?
What adult wasps eat.
Solly
What is sweet things like nectar and rotting fruit?
The substance injected into the body by the stinger.
Violet
What is venom?
The part of the wasp where the antennae are located.
Cooper
What is the head?
The outside of the paper wasp nest is called this.
River
What is the envelope?
Wasps are helpful because they do this.
Wolf
What is eat rotting meat from dead animals?
Adult wasps cannot eat this type of food.
Wilf
What is solid food?
The part of the body that houses the nervous system.
May
What is the head?
The part of the wasp that produces the venom.
Garrett
What is the venom gland?
The name of the wasp that begins a nest in the spring.
Huxley
What is a founding queen?
The signal that neurons send to the brain when they are damaged by wasp venom.
Maura
What is PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!
The food that larvae eat.
Weslyn
What are meat balls?
The number of known wasp species world wide.
Wolf
What is 120?
The legs and wings are attached to this part of the wasp's body.
Maura
What is the thorax?
The material that wasps chew to make the paper for their nests.
Kamila
What is rotting or decaying wood?
One of the substances in wasp venom that breaks down cell membranes.
Garrett
What are peptides or enzymes?
The type of nests that are found under ground.
Wilf
What are subterranean nests?
Wasp pupae eat _______________.
Violet
They don't eat anything.
Nothing
A series of holes on the abdomen that wasps breathe through.
Harvey
What is the respiratory system?
The array of cells inside the nest that hold the eggs, larvae and pupae.
Henry
What is the comb?
The pheromone that tells the wasps, "Hey, that's the predator! Let's go sting it!!!"
Henry
What is the marker pheromone?
What a wasp larva throws up after eating.
May
What is an exudate?
The time of day when wasps build the comb cells of their nest.
Cooper
What is 24 hours per day?