Hamilton, noting that the eggs develop within their host—the larva of another insect—and that the newly emerged adult wasps mate immediately and disperse, offered a remarkably cogent analysis.

汉密尔顿指出，黄蜂卵在寄主即另一种昆虫的幼虫内发育，新出现的成年黄蜂立即交配并四散，这提供了一个非常有说服力的分析。

The wasps kill the insects that are eating the plants.

黄蜂会杀死吃掉植物的昆虫。

Following a perfume trail to its source, male wasps in Australia ravish a king spider orchid.

在澳大利亚，有一群雄蜂随香寻源，强占了一株王蜘蛛兰。

M: Well, the paper wasps can.

M：纸黄蜂也是。

You mortals are like wasps.

你们凡人就像黄蜂。

But not all wasps sleep like this.

但并不是所有的黄蜂都像这样冬眠。

Most bees and wasps are social insects.

大多数蜜蜂和黄蜂都是群居昆虫。

We are always plagued by wasps in autumn.

每年秋天，我们这里总是黄蜂成灾。

These wasps live in a cloud forest in Costa Rica.

这类黄蜂居住在哥斯达黎加的雾林中。

On some level, they communicate with the wasps.

一定程度上说，它们能与黄蜂交流。

Like ants and wasps, honeybees exhibit social behavior.

与蚂蚁及黄蜂一样，蜜蜂展现出的是社会化的行为。

The sulphur will fetch those wasps out of their nest.

硫磺可以使那些黄蜂从巢里飞出来。

Bees and wasps both sting, but they have other similarities too.

蜜蜂和黄蜂都刺人，但它们还有其他相似之处。

Only the female wasps hibernate in a safe place with their eggs.

只有雌黄蜂和它的卵在一个安全的地方冬眠。

In most species of social insects, such as wasps, bees, and ants, the females rule.

群居昆虫中大多奉行母系制度，比如黄蜂、蜜蜂、蚂蚁。

Wasps usually have a slender, shiny body but they can often look like Honeybees.

黄蜂体型细长，像蜜蜂一样身体发亮。

This wasp is not a pollinator but rather a copycat that preys on real pollinator wasps.

这种黄蜂并不传粉，相反它是以真正的传粉黄蜂为食的。

Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence.

直至今日，人们还在对许多种果蝇和黄蜂翅膀上时刻变幻的彩虹色熟视无睹。

Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.

农业学家也考虑过用寄生蜂来控制果蝇。

Several times, we cut through wasps' nests, concealed beneath leaves, and had to run for cover.

我好几次砍到藏在树叶下的黄蜂的巢，我们只得逃跑以躲避它们。

Here are the beautiful and creepy images of scorpions, wasps, sharks, bees and spiders they sent us.

以下就是这些科学家们寄给我们的照片，这些美丽又恐怖的照片展示了蝎子、胡蜂、鲨鱼、蜜蜂和蜘蛛在电镜之中的形象。

The wasps that created these shapes burrowed near dinosaur nests, and are very similar to modern-day wasps.

在恐龙巢穴旁挖地筑造出这些蜂巢的黄蜂跟现在的黄蜂非常相似。

We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths.

我们在日常生活中，不但憎恶如蜘蛛、黄蜂之类令人讨厌的昆虫，而且憎恶并无大害的飞蛾等。

Parasitoid wasps and flies use their long ovipositors to thrust their eggs into the eggs and bodies of other insects.

寄生蜂和一些苍蝇会利用自己细长的产卵器将卵产在其他昆虫的卵内。

Unlike Honeybees, when wasps sting their victim they do not lose their stinger, allowing them to sting their victim repeatedly.

与蜜蜂不同的是，当黄蜂螫伤受害者时，还要反复不断地攻击。

They may also play dead. Birds are ladybugs' main predators, but they also fall victim to frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies.

鸟类是瓢虫的主要天敌，有时他们也是青蛙，黄蜂，蜘蛛和蜻蜓的战利品。

Parrish married a pilot after the war. She and her daughter, Nancy, for over a decade have documented the work of the WASPs.

战后，Parrish与一位飞行员结婚，为记录整理“女子飞行团WASPs”当年的工作，她和女儿Nancy一起工作了十几年。

Most jellyfish don't have eyes, but sea wasps have several clusters of them on their bells, complete with lenses, irises and corneas.

大部分的水母没有眼睛，但“海黄蜂”的伞状体上却有好几组眼睛，具有完整的晶状体、虹膜和眼角膜。