aculeate
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However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
After accounting for the unusual evolutionary history of the aculeate Hymenoptera, the researchers found that haplodiploid insects outside that group developed eusociality at rates similar to those seen in diploid insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Some fossors are subject to the depredations of cuckoos, just as the solitary bees are, but their cuckoos are rarely of aculeate origin.
From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders
Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Hymonoptera, large size of the cerebral ganglia in; classification of; sexual differences in the wings of; aculeate, relative size of the sexes of.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
