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    A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted...
    63 KB (6,801 words) - 10:31, 31 March 2025
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    Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids...
    36 KB (3,665 words) - 06:14, 4 June 2025
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    WASP-3 is a triple star system located about 753 light-years (231 parsecs) away from the Sun in the constellation Lyra. The system has an apparent magnitude...
    13 KB (877 words) - 00:24, 27 May 2025
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    only known planet in the WASP-76 system. The equilibrium temperature of WASP-76b is estimated to be around 2,190 K (1,920 °C; 3,480 °F), However, the...
    18 KB (1,428 words) - 20:56, 13 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Paper wasp
    Paper wasps are a type of social vespid wasps. The term is typically used to refer to members of the vespid subfamily Polistinae, though it often colloquially...
    12 KB (1,212 words) - 04:49, 26 May 2025
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    WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter (a class of extrasolar planets) orbiting the star WASP-12, discovered in April of 2008, by the SuperWASP planetary transit survey...
    19 KB (2,014 words) - 10:31, 24 May 2025
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    Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside fig syconia. Some are pollinators but others simply feed off...
    27 KB (2,652 words) - 21:36, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp
    The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is an American twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a displacement of 2,800 cu in (46 L)...
    29 KB (3,488 words) - 07:47, 13 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
    The Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp is an aircraft engine of the reciprocating type that was widely used in American aircraft from the 1920s onward. It was...
    9 KB (983 words) - 04:50, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein
    causing the WASp protein to 'open'. This exposes a domain near the WASp C-terminus that binds to and activates the Arp2/3 complex. Activated Arp2/3 nucleates...
    21 KB (2,602 words) - 21:43, 18 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major
    The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major is an American 28-cylinder four-row radial piston aircraft engine designed and built during World War II. At 4,362...
    17 KB (1,823 words) - 12:24, 30 May 2025
  • Wasp Network is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, based on the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War by Fernando Morais...
    21 KB (1,866 words) - 22:44, 10 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Spider wasp
    Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
    24 KB (2,807 words) - 15:01, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for WASP-121b
    WASP-121b, formally named Tylos, is an exoplanet orbiting the star WASP-121. WASP-121b is the first exoplanet found with an extrasolar planetary stratosphere...
    23 KB (2,307 words) - 23:09, 15 June 2025
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    States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant...
    83 KB (8,770 words) - 15:45, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gall wasp
    Gall wasps, also traditionally called gallflies, are hymenopterans of the family Cynipidae in the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea. Their common name comes...
    13 KB (1,245 words) - 00:20, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Median wasp
    It is most common to see this wasp between May and October during its 3.3 month colony cycle. Behaviours of this wasp include nest defense, curling which...
    22 KB (2,919 words) - 21:44, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior
    The Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior is a series of nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial aircraft engines built by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company from...
    28 KB (2,653 words) - 13:44, 9 May 2025
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    orangish star. WASP-132 is a K-type main-sequence star with a spectral type of K4V, corresponding to its effective temperature of 4,714 K (4,441 °C; 8,026 °F)...
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  • WASP-193b is a hot, transiting gas giant planet located approximately 1,232 light-years (378 pc) away in the constellation of Hydra, orbiting the F-type...
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