Order Hymenoptera -Bees and wasps and ants. These insects have four transparent wings . They usually have a highly constricted region at the anterior of their abdomen. This gives them the ability to swivel their abdomen around to sting for defense or for prey capture. These organisms may also range from predatory to herbivorous to endoparasitic.
Many species are social.
Comparisons among wasps, flies, bees -Compare a wasp to a fly and compare a wasp to a bee. The butterflies and moths. These insects have scaly wings . The adults often have sucking mouthparts, modified into a sort of siphon to consume nectar from flowers. Notice that the color patterns on the wings result from the individual scales.