Native bee lover here! Thank you so much for making this video. I just wanted to add that only ~30% of our native bees nest in cavities like the bee hotels. The other 70% nest underground. So if you want to help them, leaving a bare patch of sunny, southeast facing dirt in your yard is the way to go!
It's a great order! Planning to do some family level videos to give some specific groups in this order some love once I knock out some more Order videos 🙌
Great video Garrison! Another tip if you are planting native for insects: many of our native bees overwinter in the hollow stems or leaf litter of dead/“hibernating” plants. If you can, leave your plantings up through the fall/winter and try not to mow/suck all of your fallen leaves! Love the Skorupi btw #LeaveTheLeaves
I was always told that the scientific name came from the fact that their wings were hooked together and it meant hook wing. But considering other applications of the scientific root, your explanation makes a lot more sense.
I had failed to mention this in the video but it is a double entendre! Hymeno is the greek god of marriage - so the taxonomists slipped in a double meaning
i was under the impression that the wasp waist seperated two parts of their abdomen, and the first part of their abdomen fused with the thorax. is this wrong?
Yes thats my bad! Really should have used mesosoma and metasoma there to describe the petiole. The propodeum (1st abdominal segment) is fused to the thorax. The petiole is the second abdominal segment, and the "functional abdomen" (Metasoma) is the gaster. I go over the Hymenopteran body plan more in depth (and more accurately) in my recent ant video if you want to take a deeper dive!
Nice. Please keep making videos like these, entomology is gonna take off amongst citizen scientists as climate moves stuff around. Dont be affraid to hit the public with full science and jargon. We got crime pays for plants and nick zentner cor geology we need the popsci bug personalities too.
Ayy! Yea I heard the etymology could reference the marriage of their wings (joined by hamuli). I like this explanation a lot better - way more descriptive and unique 😂
@@insectspotlightproject Don't let these rediculous claims fool you, watch his videos. You'll find out snakes are lizards, cuttlefish are squids, and possibly someday crabs and lobsters are shrimp, and how our kind is the hagfish of reptiles.
Probably could have mentioned a brief aside on em! but tried to keep it broad and within that 10 minute marker - would love to do a more specific video on vespid wasps and cover them more in depth there!
This is awesome, but please ... the ants need more love. Did you know ants are often left out of "bug print" fabrics? Yes, when you have a pattern with various random bugs there will always be a bee, a butterfly, a beetle, maybe even a spider... but no ant. Ants are overlooked!
Native bee lover here! Thank you so much for making this video. I just wanted to add that only ~30% of our native bees nest in cavities like the bee hotels. The other 70% nest underground. So if you want to help them, leaving a bare patch of sunny, southeast facing dirt in your yard is the way to go!
yesss love this idea! 🙌
Honestly wish there were more deep dives like this into my favorite order of insects. Hymenoptera is the best
It's a great order! Planning to do some family level videos to give some specific groups in this order some love once I knock out some more Order videos 🙌
@@insectspotlightproject awesome, can't wait!
Great video Garrison!
Another tip if you are planting native for insects: many of our native bees overwinter in the hollow stems or leaf litter of dead/“hibernating” plants. If you can, leave your plantings up through the fall/winter and try not to mow/suck all of your fallen leaves! Love the Skorupi btw
#LeaveTheLeaves
Great tip! You know I'll be leaving up my dead stems and such 💯🐝
One of the coolest insects
I was always told that the scientific name came from the fact that their wings were hooked together and it meant hook wing. But considering other applications of the scientific root, your explanation makes a lot more sense.
I had failed to mention this in the video but it is a double entendre! Hymeno is the greek god of marriage - so the taxonomists slipped in a double meaning
i love hymenoptera!!!!!!!!!
Me too!!!!
i was under the impression that the wasp waist seperated two parts of their abdomen, and the first part of their abdomen fused with the thorax. is this wrong?
Yes thats my bad! Really should have used mesosoma and metasoma there to describe the petiole. The propodeum (1st abdominal segment) is fused to the thorax. The petiole is the second abdominal segment, and the "functional abdomen" (Metasoma) is the gaster. I go over the Hymenopteran body plan more in depth (and more accurately) in my recent ant video if you want to take a deeper dive!
Nice. Please keep making videos like these, entomology is gonna take off amongst citizen scientists as climate moves stuff around. Dont be affraid to hit the public with full science and jargon.
We got crime pays for plants and nick zentner cor geology we need the popsci bug personalities too.
Thanks so much! I'll do my best! 🙌
really great video. i also noticed you have fangs
oh yea h
Haha yea always naturally had pretty sharp canines - a lil ironic because I'm vegetarian 🤷Thank you for the support!
Where’d you get that shirt? 🐝
DarkCycleClothing on Etsy! They make a bunch of tshirts of animals riding bicycles - got it as a gift a while back 🙌
just watching for cute images lol
lol will try to keep the image cuteness up to par 🙌
Came here from greek mythology, wedding wings ❤
Ayy! Yea I heard the etymology could reference the marriage of their wings (joined by hamuli). I like this explanation a lot better - way more descriptive and unique 😂
@insectspotlightproject Reading MYTHOS by Stephen Fry ! You respond so kindly
Bees and ants are wasps, and wasps are all sawflies.
-Clint Laidlaw
A wise man indeed 😂
@@insectspotlightproject Don't let these rediculous claims fool you, watch his videos. You'll find out snakes are lizards, cuttlefish are squids, and possibly someday crabs and lobsters are shrimp, and how our kind is the hagfish of reptiles.
@@DJLucas-xv7oe haha naw didnt mean to diss him! Love Clints reptiles. Evolutionarily it all checks out 🫡
👎🏼
@YunxiaoChu Grow up and accept the truth
No hornets?
Probably could have mentioned a brief aside on em! but tried to keep it broad and within that 10 minute marker - would love to do a more specific video on vespid wasps and cover them more in depth there!
Hornets are wasps
This is awesome, but please ... the ants need more love. Did you know ants are often left out of "bug print" fabrics? Yes, when you have a pattern with various random bugs there will always be a bee, a butterfly, a beetle, maybe even a spider... but no ant. Ants are overlooked!
Catchy ideas for a wasp removal/bee relocation business name? Anyone? vespidead?