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Mining Bees Large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas. 6 species
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Mining Bees Large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas. 6 species
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Bees & Bumblebees Apidae is the largest family of bees, containing at least 5700 species of bees, including bumblebees, honey bees, stingless bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees. 15 species
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This family of sawflies (Symphyta sub-order) is characterised by the fused antennal segments. 3 species
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Cuckoo wasps Very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic small wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors. 7 species
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Robust sawflies with five segmented antennae ending in distinctive 'clubs'.
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Sand wasps Large group of wasps (over 9,000 described). Adults feed on nectar or honeydew. Many species are ground nesters. 4 species
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Gall wasps, Gallflies 2 species
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Ants 3 species
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4 species Sweat bees
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Ichneumon wasps, Ichneumonids 4 species
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Leaf-cutter bees, Mason bees 8 species
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Serrate-horned sawflies Small family (50 species described) of thermophilic sawflies, exclusively Palaearctic. They have serrate or pectinate antennae. 2 species
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Spider wasps Pompilids capture and paralyze spiders, using them as food for their larvae. They have long, spiny legs. 3 species
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Scoliid wasps Scoliid wasps are solitary parasitoids of scarab beetle larvae. About 560 species worldwide have been recorded. 4 species
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Digger Wasps Solitary wasps, with large head and a lobe on the lateral edge of the pronotum that does not touch the tegula. 3 species
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Sawflies Tenthredinidae is the largest family of sawflies, wasp-like insects, in the suborder Symphyta. Over 7,500 species have been recorded worldwide. 12 species
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Wasps 6 species