Wasps

Pilots (WASP) were America’s first female aviators to fly in direct support of military operations during the war. The development and implementation of the WASP’s would prove to have directly influenced the war

The article Fig trees and wasps depend on each other is an article by Ann Auerbach. The article is about the relationship fig trees and wasps have. According to the article, wasps and fig trees have co-evolved to mutually benefit each other. The fig is a plant with a gourd like flower called a synconium. Inside it are tiny fig flowers that can either be male or female. They cannot mate because they mature at different times. The wasp, a small insect with a short life span depends on that synconium

On January 9, 2017, our America Literature class read excerpts from Jason Ockert’s, Wasp Box and Stefan Kiesbye’s, The Stated Plains. When reading just a short portion of the Wasp Box, the scenario depicted made me want to visually see Speck’s antics on screen. Ockert’s, Wasp Box is my favorite of the two readings, because the author provided readers with a smooth-flowing storyline with a sense of reality, excitement, and a little humor. The adventures of a mischievous young boy named Speck, reminded

Americans have always embraced and encouraged the melting pot concept. However, WASP stereotypes of immigrants were the driving force behind the quality of treatment received by immigrant groups. It was the group they hated, which made it difficult for immigrants to be seen as individuals, let

netted a new species of spider wasp in southern China that was later named the Bone House Wasp. The Bone House wasp is black in color and measures about a half inch in length. Currently this species of wasp is only found in the Gutianshan National Nature Reserve located in Southeastern China (Communications, S.O.). Even though many people find wasps to be a nuisance they still serve a rather important role in ecosystems across the globe. Like all wasps, the Bone House Wasp is a pollinator and provides

Although there are now plans for a movie titled Ant-Man and the Wasp, there is no reason for the Wasp not to have her own movie. The Wasp in the upcoming movie will most likely be the character of Hope Van-Dyne, daughter of Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, and Janet Van-Dyne, the original Wasp. One of the conflicts throughout this year’s Ant-Man is Hope wanting to put on the Ant-Man suit herself, but her father is afraid she would

This world is full of wonder, and delight yet also full of hate and horror. So what does a spider have to do after all how could a spider ne anything besides a horror? In Alexander Petrunkevitch’s science essay titled “Spider and the Wasp” he speaks of spiders as intricate creatures beautiful even yet also so unintelligent it is unable to see its own demise, but do we not resemble it in some ways? After all many humans look at other people as simply an object to step over getting to their goal. Yet

The venom of the Brazilian wasps kills tumor cell The scientists believe that the venom of the Brazilian wasps could be used in the fight against cancer. The BBC reported that according to the lab tests, toxin kills cancer cells while healthy cells remain intact. A team from the Brazilian university says the experimental drug binds with tumor cells and causes the loss of key molecules. The research is at an early stage and needs further examination to verify is it safe for humans. Polybia Paulista

no matter how much you struggle for can never be relived. It sits on the dual pillars of place and time, you may conquer one but the other will always be there, to cause despair. This was the common struggle experienced and expressed in “The Brown Wasps” and “Once more at the lake”. Throughout his essay, Loren Eiseley describes different scenarios that he witnessed. All of which have a central theme of change, not in times, but in the real, physical world. He talks about mice losing their little

known as WASP, and she gathered twenty-four American women to fly for the British Air Transport. She proved persuasive when she convinced Chief of the Army Air Forces, Hap Arnold, to create an American flight training program for women to aid in the war effort. Later on as the news spread more than twenty-five thousand women enrolled but the requirements were and on only eighteen hundred of them where admitted. Jaclyn Cochran was then appointed as the director of the program. The WASP accomplished