[ **up: [[Insects]]** ] --- # Hymenoptera (Order) A large order of [[Insects|insects]], including [[sawflies]], [[wasps|wasps]], [[bees]], and [[Ants|ants]].[^1] > Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones.[^2] Many of this species are [[Parasites|parasitic]].[^3] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Arthropods|Arthropoda (Phylum)]] - [[Insects|Insecta (Class)]] - [[Hymenoptera (Order)]] --- ## Habits ### Pheromones #### Signature mixes [[2025-0321. Examples of signature mixes for animal recognition abound.|’In social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites, the differences in chemical profile between colonies allow animals to distinguish nest-mates and non-nestmate conspecifics.’]][^4] [[2025-0321. 'Social insect workers do not reproduce in the presence of queen pheromones.'|'Social insect workers do not reproduce in the presence of queen pheromones.']][^5] [[2025-0321. 'Social insect workers do not reproduce in the presence of queen pheromones.'|'The queen pheromone molecule(s) appeared in the gas chromatogram traces as constant peaks in all queens, overlaid on a complex colony odour background of cuticular hydrocarbons, highly variable between colonies.’]][^6] [^1]: ‘Hymenoptera’, *Wikipedia*, updated 16 March 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera. [^2]: ‘Hymenoptera’, *Wikipedia*, updated 16 March 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera. [^3]: ‘Hymenoptera’, *Wikipedia*, updated 16 March 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera. [^4]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740. [^5]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740. [^6]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740.