ORDER: HYMENOPTERA

• Bees, Wasps, Ants, Sawflies, Horntails etc.
• Sizes range from 0.20 mm to 65 mm in length.
• Mouth parts are chewing or reduced in larvae but chewing or chewing-lapping in adults.
• Antennals are filiform and geniculate etc.
• Compound eyes are large but absent in ants.
• Legs are long with five segmented tarsi.
• Two pairs of long narrow membranous wings with fused venation are absent.
• Hamuli or hooks represent on hind-wings of all winged forms.
• The ovipositor may be modified into a sting.
• Some species are highly social and have caste differences.
• Larvae are either caterpillar-like or they are called “grubs”. Larvae are herbivorous or parasitic to scavengers.
• Metamorphosis is complete.
• Most species have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Wingless workers of ants and sawflies are exceptions.