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• College students sold on stripper poles
A Japanese fan club for wasps has added the insects to rice crackers, saying the result adds a waspish flavor to the traditional fare. The jibachi senbei, or digger wasp rice crackers, are made in the town of Omachi 120 miles northwest of Tokyo and ...
• Bees do the wave to save their lives
When faced with a threat, hundreds or even thousands of  giant honeybees will all rotate their abdomens in a split second to create an iridescent effect that seems to startle and confuse wasps, which hunt giant honeybees for food. Scientists have ...
• Male wasps make love to orchids - LiveScience- msnbc.com
Researchers find males of a species called orchid-dupe-wasps go all the way with Australian tongue orchids, wasting their precious bodily fluids in the process.
• Parasitic wasps are friends to the fig - LiveScience- msnbc.com
By causing harm, parasites can sometimes help the species they afflict. Scientists investigated pollinator wasps (Pleistodontes imperialis) and an Australian species of fig (Ficus ...
• Bees do the wave to save their lives
Bees do the wave to save their lives Shimmering triggered by approaching wasps, serves to drive them away