5 Bee Wasp Hornet Specimen Set in 5 Clear Small Lucite Block Learning Aid TE2S5

Description

Lucite Paperweight - Clear (5 Blocks Set)
Real Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), Black Shield Wasp - Vespa bicolor, Lesser Banded Tiger Hornet - Vespa affinis, Red Wasp (Vespula rufa) and Yellow Paper-Wasp - Polistes olivaceus specimen encased in rectangular indestructible, transparent lucite block. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!
Anyone can safely explore the specimens from every angle.
They are clear enough for microscope observation.
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5 Bee Wasp Hornet Specimen Set in 5 Clear Small Lucite Block Learning Aid TE2S5
Lucite Paperweight - Clear (5 Blocks Set)
Real
Honey Bee (
Apis mellifera
),
Black Shield Wasp
- Vespa bicolor,
Lesser Banded Tiger Hornet -
Vespa affinis,
Red Wasp
(Vespula rufa)
and
Yellow Paper-Wasp -
Polistes olivaceus
specimen encased in rectangular indestructible, transparent lucite block. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!
Anyone can safely explore the specimens from every angle.
They are clear enough for microscope observation.
Length of the specimens body are 1.2 cm (0.5 inch), 1.9 cm (0.8 inch), 2.6 cm (1.0 inch), 1.5 cm (0.6 inch)
and 2.0
cm (0.8 inch)
.
Size of each lucite block is 3.8x2.5x1.3 cm (1.5x1.0x0.5 inch).
Weight of each block is 15 gram.
This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
They are ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item.
***
Honey Bee -
Apis mellifera
The Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a species of honey bee. This species was introduced to China from early 20th century and has been raised widely around the country.
In the temperate zone, honey bees survive winter as a colony, and the queen begins egg laying in mid to late winter, to prepare for spring. This is most likely triggered by longer day length. She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced. Except a brief mating period when she may make several flights to mate with drones, or if she leaves in later life with a swarm to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larvae have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees and begins the pupal stage. After another week, it will emerge an adult bee.
For the first ten days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager. The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 40,000 and 80,000 bees.
Black Shield Wasp
- Vespa bicolor
Class: Insecta  Order: Hymenoptera  Suborder: Apocrita
Family: Vespidae  Subfamily: Vespinae  Genus:
Vespa
This is the smallest species of
Vespa
, and certainly one of the smallest in the world (perhaps the smallest). It is easily recognizable due to its bright yellow colour; it has a black triangular patch on the central part of the thorax, and the abdomen sometimes displays black stripes due to expansion when the wasp is eating. Queens are far larger than workers and reach 25mm or more; males average 19 to 23mm, and the largest workers reach 22mm. Most workers I find are in the range of 17 to 19mm, and some only 15mm.
Vespa bicolor
is one of the most common social wasps, along with species of
Parapolybia
. It can be found in a wide range of environments, and frequently appears near human dwellings.
Vespa bicolor
is not at all picky regarding its choice of prey. Workers of this species target small flying insects, and tend to hunt by site. They are also fond of human food, particularly meaty items, and frequently appear at barbecue sites. This is the only local hornet which seems to like collecting cooked meat. It can thus be a pest at barbecues and outdoor events. They apparently do not hurt people in their quest for food, and a small number can easily be chased away, but on occasions, when they appear in large numbers, it can be disastrous. They especially like the smell of barbequed meats and fish, as well as anything sweet. They also forage among garbage.
Lesser Banded Tiger Hornet -
Vespa affinis
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Vespidae
Genus:
Vespa
Species:
V. affinis
This is a small to medium-sized hornet, with queens reaching 30mm, males 26mm and workers being an average of 22 to 25mm. There are several geographical forms or subspecies; the ones found in South China are generally mainly black, with the first two abdominal segments being a deep yellow, forming a conspicuous band. The sides of the head and thorax show some reddish brown. On the other hand, specimens from Southeast Asian regions such as Singapore are fully black, without reddish brown markings, and the abdominal band is a brilliant orange.
This species is widespread throughout Asia. It can frequently be seen foraging close to the ground in grassy areas, forest and wasteland. This species seems to prey heavily on flies which can be pests. It can frequently be found on the beach, staying near rotting mussels which smell bad and attract flies. Initially, I assumed they were taking the mussel meat to feed their larvae, but it turned out that they were simply creeping into the mussel shells and hiding there to ambush the flies! They also love the nectar from flowers of the coconut tree, and often, after drinking their fill, conveniently grab a honeybee from a nearby flower and head for home. Besides these, they will also attack any small insect they can overpower. They will also collect meat from freshly dead insects.
The nest of
Vespa affinis
is usually high in a tree, although on occasion they build lower. It is generally elongated, and looks similar to the nest of
Vespa velutina
. However, it can be distinguished by having a more imbricate nest envelope (many individual overlapping circular layers of papering, as opposed to running vertically lengthwise), and the nest has a tough, durable appearance. It can often reach 60 cm in length in sub-tropical areas, and even larger in true tropical regions. Also, there is an interesting variation of nest shapes; in tropical areas, the top of the nest is very narrow but tapers out downwards, forming a "pear-shaped" or "drop-shaped" structure. Nests in subtropical regions are simply oval with a rounded top. In South China, this species has an average life cycle; the queens awake from hibernation in April, and the colony usually dies only in late November. In fully tropical areas, it seems present all the time. This species is known for multiple queen founding or even swarm founding (known in scientific terms as pleometrosis) in tropical regions, where several queens or multiple queens with a swarm of workers from the old colony start a new nest together.
Red Wasp -
Vespula rufa
Order: Hymenoptera   Family: Vespidae  Genus:
Vespula
Vespula rufa
, commonly known as the red wasp, is a social wasp species belonging to the genus
Vespula
. It is found in northern and central Europe, parts of Asia, and northern parts of North America.
Vespula rufa
is characterised by red-brown markings and body segmentation, with the appearance varying amongst the different roles of individuals in the species. These wasps build small nests in dry banks underground that are not far below the surface. The colony cycle begins in the fall.
Vespula rufa
feed on live insects. One interesting fact about
Vespula rufa
is that the queen policing occurs in the species, and that worker policing occurs at much lower rates than other species in the genus
Vespula
. There are predators and parasites of the species. The species goes through a series of events before leaving the nest.
V. rufa
can be distinguished by its reddish-brown markings on the back. Specimens of this species with reduced spots on the abdomen have tissue that is segmented into three parts and four “anteriorly directed lobes.” There are three main types of colour patterns in the species.
V. rufa
lack the long, yellow lines that
V. squamosa
and
V. sulphurea
have. Workers and queens differ in their colour patterns. While the basic colour scheme appears to be the same in workers and queens, there are some slight differences. Workers have more expansive black colour and less yellow or white than queens. That is, the queens have a greater display of yellow colour than the workers. In the workers, the yellow tissue of the abdominal segment is thin and triply divided, while the yellow tissue segments in the queen are larger. In queens lateral divisions become black spots. However, this is not always the case as often workers have divisions replaced by black spots, and queens occasionally have the less patterned appearance characteristic of workers. The differences in colour pattern correspond to the size, with more coloured workers being more likely to be large and less coloured ones more likely to be small. Workers have the smallest fore wing length (10.0-11.0 mm), followed by males (11.0-12.0 mm), and females have the longest fore wings (12.5-13.0 mm).
Yellow Paper-Wasp -
Polistes olivaceus
COMMON NAMES: Yellow Paper-Wasp, Yellow Oriental Paper-Wasp, Redbrown Paper-Wasp; German Feldwespe
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - e.Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC e.Africa - Marquesas, Easter Is.; Hawai‘i
SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous sting - serious
KEY FEATURES: Large, 20mm TL. THORAX dorsal shield black with two long and wide longitudinal yellow stripes, expanded anteriorly, and yellow patches laterally; anteo-lateral plates yellow rimmed with dark centres; posterior plate orange-brown with posterior yellow bar; WAIST mainly yellow, with black lines; ABDOMEN anterior yellow, 2nd seg red yellow with fine black band, remainder yellow with black bands. WINGS yellow. LEGS yellow-brown (male - inner seg. with black).
SIMILAR SPECIES: Dark-waist Paper-Hornet (
Polistes jadwigae
) has overall black waist (vs. mainly yellow); thorax-shield black with two uniformly-narrow parallel lines (vs two anteriorly expanded wide parallel lines); wings smoky-brown (vs yellow).
Item Specifics
Handmade :
Yes
Modified Item :
No
Modification Description :
NA
Country/Region of Manufacture :
China
California Prop 65 Warning :
NA
Material :
Resin
Type :
Collector Plate
Animal Class :
Bee
Payment
By Paypal
Shipping
Free shipping cost.
We send the goods to USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, EU countries and some other European and Asian countries by E-express, a kind of fast postal service by Hong Kong Post. It usually takes about 6 to 10 working days for delivery.
We send the goods to other countries by registered airmail and will take about 8 to 14 working days for delivery.
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5 Bee Wasp Hornet Specimen Set in 5 Clear Small Lucite Block Learning Aid TE2S5
Lucite Paperweight - Clear (5 Blocks Set)
Real
Honey Bee (
Apis mellifera
),
Black Shield Wasp
- Vespa bicolor,
Lesser Banded Tiger Hornet -
Vespa affinis,
Red Wasp
(Vespula rufa)
and
Yellow Paper-Wasp -
Polistes olivaceus
specimen encased in rectangular indestructible, transparent lucite block. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!
Anyone can safely explore the specimens from every angle.
They are clear enough for microscope observation.
Length of the specimens body are 1.2 cm (0.5 inch), 1.9 cm (0.8 inch), 2.6 cm (1.0 inch), 1.5 cm (0.6 inch)
and 2.0
cm (0.8 inch)
.
Size of each lucite block is 3.8x2.5x1.3 cm (1.5x1.0x0.5 inch).
Weight of each block is 15 gram.
This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
They are ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item.
***
Honey Bee -
Apis mellifera
The Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a species of honey bee. This species was introduced to China from early 20th century and has been raised widely around the country.
In the temperate zone, honey bees survive winter as a colony, and the queen begins egg laying in mid to late winter, to prepare for spring. This is most likely triggered by longer day length. She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced. Except a brief mating period when she may make several flights to mate with drones, or if she leaves in later life with a swarm to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larvae have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees and begins the pupal stage. After another week, it will emerge an adult bee.
For the first ten days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager. The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 40,000 and 80,000 bees.
Black Shield Wasp
- Vespa bicolor
Class: Insecta  Order: Hymenoptera  Suborder: Apocrita
Family: Vespidae  Subfamily: Vespinae  Genus:
Vespa
This is the smallest species of
Vespa
, and certainly one of the smallest in the world (perhaps the smallest). It is easily recognizable due to its bright yellow colour; it has a black triangular patch on the central part of the thorax, and the abdomen sometimes displays black stripes due to expansion when the wasp is eating. Queens are far larger than workers and reach 25mm or more; males average 19 to 23mm, and the largest workers reach 22mm. Most workers I find are in the range of 17 to 19mm, and some only 15mm.
Vespa bicolor
is one of the most common social wasps, along with species of
Parapolybia
. It can be found in a wide range of environments, and frequently appears near human dwellings.
Vespa bicolor
is not at all picky regarding its choice of prey. Workers of this species target small flying insects, and tend to hunt by site. They are also fond of human food, particularly meaty items, and frequently appear at barbecue sites. This is the only local hornet which seems to like collecting cooked meat. It can thus be a pest at barbecues and outdoor events. They apparently do not hurt people in their quest for food, and a small number can easily be chased away, but on occasions, when they appear in large numbers, it can be disastrous. They especially like the smell of barbequed meats and fish, as well as anything sweet. They also forage among garbage.
Lesser Banded Tiger Hornet -
Vespa affinis
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Vespidae
Genus:
Vespa
Species:
V. affinis
This is a small to medium-sized hornet, with queens reaching 30mm, males 26mm and workers being an average of 22 to 25mm. There are several geographical forms or subspecies; the ones found in South China are generally mainly black, with the first two abdominal segments being a deep yellow, forming a conspicuous band. The sides of the head and thorax show some reddish brown. On the other hand, specimens from Southeast Asian regions such as Singapore are fully black, without reddish brown markings, and the abdominal band is a brilliant orange.
This species is widespread throughout Asia. It can frequently be seen foraging close to the ground in grassy areas, forest and wasteland. This species seems to prey heavily on flies which can be pests. It can frequently be found on the beach, staying near rotting mussels which smell bad and attract flies. Initially, I assumed they were taking the mussel meat to feed their larvae, but it turned out that they were simply creeping into the mussel shells and hiding there to ambush the flies! They also love the nectar from flowers of the coconut tree, and often, after drinking their fill, conveniently grab a honeybee from a nearby flower and head for home. Besides these, they will also attack any small insect they can overpower. They will also collect meat from freshly dead insects.
The nest of
Vespa affinis
is usually high in a tree, although on occasion they build lower. It is generally elongated, and looks similar to the nest of
Vespa velutina
. However, it can be distinguished by having a more imbricate nest envelope (many individual overlapping circular layers of papering, as opposed to running vertically lengthwise), and the nest has a tough, durable appearance. It can often reach 60 cm in length in sub-tropical areas, and even larger in true tropical regions. Also, there is an interesting variation of nest shapes; in tropical areas, the top of the nest is very narrow but tapers out downwards, forming a "pear-shaped" or "drop-shaped" structure. Nests in subtropical regions are simply oval with a rounded top. In South China, this species has an average life cycle; the queens awake from hibernation in April, and the colony usually dies only in late November. In fully tropical areas, it seems present all the time. This species is known for multiple queen founding or even swarm founding (known in scientific terms as pleometrosis) in tropical regions, where several queens or multiple queens with a swarm of workers from the old colony start a new nest together.
Red Wasp -
Vespula rufa
Order: Hymenoptera   Family: Vespidae  Genus:
Vespula
Vespula rufa
, commonly known as the red wasp, is a social wasp species belonging to the genus
Vespula
. It is found in northern and central Europe, parts of Asia, and northern parts of North America.
Vespula rufa
is characterised by red-brown markings and body segmentation, with the appearance varying amongst the different roles of individuals in the species. These wasps build small nests in dry banks underground that are not far below the surface. The colony cycle begins in the fall.
Vespula rufa
feed on live insects. One interesting fact about
Vespula rufa
is that the queen policing occurs in the species, and that worker policing occurs at much lower rates than other species in the genus
Vespula
. There are predators and parasites of the species. The species goes through a series of events before leaving the nest.
V. rufa
can be distinguished by its reddish-brown markings on the back. Specimens of this species with reduced spots on the abdomen have tissue that is segmented into three parts and four “anteriorly directed lobes.” There are three main types of colour patterns in the species.
V. rufa
lack the long, yellow lines that
V. squamosa
and
V. sulphurea
have. Workers and queens differ in their colour patterns. While the basic colour scheme appears to be the same in workers and queens, there are some slight differences. Workers have more expansive black colour and less yellow or white than queens. That is, the queens have a greater display of yellow colour than the workers. In the workers, the yellow tissue of the abdominal segment is thin and triply divided, while the yellow tissue segments in the queen are larger. In queens lateral divisions become black spots. However, this is not always the case as often workers have divisions replaced by black spots, and queens occasionally have the less patterned appearance characteristic of workers. The differences in colour pattern correspond to the size, with more coloured workers being more likely to be large and less coloured ones more likely to be small. Workers have the smallest fore wing length (10.0-11.0 mm), followed by males (11.0-12.0 mm), and females have the longest fore wings (12.5-13.0 mm).
Yellow Paper-Wasp -
Polistes olivaceus
COMMON NAMES: Yellow Paper-Wasp, Yellow Oriental Paper-Wasp, Redbrown Paper-Wasp; German Feldwespe
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - e.Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC e.Africa - Marquesas, Easter Is.; Hawai‘i
SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous sting - serious
KEY FEATURES: Large, 20mm TL. THORAX dorsal shield black with two long and wide longitudinal yellow stripes, expanded anteriorly, and yellow patches laterally; anteo-lateral plates yellow rimmed with dark centres; posterior plate orange-brown with posterior yellow bar; WAIST mainly yellow, with black lines; ABDOMEN anterior yellow, 2nd seg red yellow with fine black band, remainder yellow with black bands. WINGS yellow. LEGS yellow-brown (male - inner seg. with black).
SIMILAR SPECIES: Dark-waist Paper-Hornet (
Polistes jadwigae
) has overall black waist (vs. mainly yellow); thorax-shield black with two uniformly-narrow parallel lines (vs two anteriorly expanded wide parallel lines); wings smoky-brown (vs yellow).
Item Specifics
Handmade :
Yes
Modified Item :
No
Modification Description :
NA
Country/Region of Manufacture :
China
California Prop 65 Warning :
NA
Material :
Resin
Type :
Collector Plate
Animal Class :
Bee
Payment
By Paypal
Shipping
Free shipping cost.
We send the goods to USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, EU countries and some other European and Asian countries by E-express, a kind of fast postal service by Hong Kong Post. It usually takes about 6 to 10 working days for delivery.
We send the goods to other countries by registered airmail and will take about 8 to 14 working days for delivery.
Returns
Returns: We accept returns with any reason in 30 days.
Contact Us
We will answer buyer messages within 24 hours during working days.
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