Can a hornet be classified as an insect?
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If it has 6 jointed legs,\nthree distinct body sections,\na single pair of antennae,\ncompound and simple eyes, then yes.I think it is, but I'm not positive.
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Wasps in general are quite beneficial, being important predators on flies, and especially caterpillars.  Cicada killers mostly kill cicadas (strangely enough). People shouldn't kill them indiscrimately.  Sure, a wasp nest next to your front door isn't exactly something you want to leave there, but running around spraying every wasp isn't a rational position either.\n\nAs far as the cicada killer wasp, how are the markings different?  There is some variation in the colour of some cicada killers, especially in the shade/hue of what are normally the yellow portions, that can be white to orange.  There are also two different species of cicada killer, and it could be either one.\n\nIt could also be something more innocuous, such as a horntail (a type of wasp that does not sting, but injects larvae into trees), or even something like a large soldier fly.
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South American?  How long a list do you want?\nhelicopter damsel flies (incredible looking\ndragon flies\narmy ants  (awesome critters)\nkissing bugs\nvarious types of scorpions\nTons of various spiders (both scorpions and spiders  are arachnids and not insects -- insects have 3 body parts and 6 legs, arachnids have 2 body parts and 8 legs, both are arthropods as are centipedes and millipedes.\nButterflies,\nflies of all sorts of varieties\nmoths\nbeetles (the most successful insect of all)\nwalking sticks\nmantises\nbees\nwasps\nleaf insects (they look like a leaf)\ntermites\n\nenough???
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I know ants are not (I tried it out). The sugar receptors of bugs are not the same than ours, so while they get stimulated by sugar, they not necessarily stimulated by other molecules we perceive as sweet.
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Daddy Long Legs is a type of spider. Spiders are not classified as insects. All healthy, uninjured, sexually matured insects have six legs. Spiders have eight and are classified under 'arachnid'.
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insect crawls and bug can fly
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Mud Wasp and Killer bee.
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The one thing a spider is afriad of is attack form overhead (primarily wasps looking to lay eggs) You could see if your spider is more of less likely to treact to different colours/shapes suspended overhead.  Or even how it would react to a mirror.
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Insects have 6 legs. Arachnids, which are sometime mistaken for insects, have 8 legs.\n\nAnts are insects. Some arachnids you might come across in your daily life are spiders and ticks.
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Organisms are classified into large groups first...but those organisms must have similar characteristics(taxonomy), so if we are classifying a butterfly...all have wings and go through a similar life cycle. From that large group, we can see that certain butterflies have specialized body shapes(morphology), and we continue to reduce the groups into those sharing the most characteristics. Those groups are further divided until we reach the Genus level where all of the ones put together have the same general anatomy, then we divide it further into the species level where every one of those organisms are the same (exceptions of both color and size may occur). It is easy if you think of some basics:\n1. Kingdoms (There are four kingdoms)\n2.Phylla (There are more than 20 phyla)\n3.Class (i.e. all mammals belong to the class Mammalia)\n4.Order (i.e. all meat-eating animals belong to Carnivora)\n5.Family (i.e. dogs, foxes, wolves belong to Canidae)\n6.Genus (i.e. Foxes belong to the genus Vulpes)\n7.Species (this identifies one of the genus specifically, i.e.\n    Vulpes zerda is the fennec fox of North Africa)
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I didn't come up with this on my own but I guess you could call it a Mummifly.\nhttp://anaba.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_anaba_archive.html
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http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/diversity/classifying/index.htm\nhttp://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/text/a-name.htm
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The question is too simple.  There are many species of wasp and many species of bee.  They vary considerably in terms of aggression.\n\nSolitary bees (who do NOT die when they sting) are difficult to provoke.  Hive bees are more easily provoked because they don't care about their individual lives, only the hive matters.  Even among bees, aggression varies considerably.  The domesticated honey bee is extremely non-aggressive, while the African "killer" bee is just the opposite.\n\nWasps vary considerably.  I've had my face a few inches from a paper wasp nest without getting more than a few defensive stances from it's inhabitants.  (I don't recommend doing this, by the way.  I'm just personally stupid.  :-)  On another occasion, I moved a metal brace we had left outdoors to find, when I pulled my hands away, I had picked up a handful of wintering wasps!  They didn't sting.  I threw them out of my hand and they flew in another direction rather than attack me.  I used to have a picture of a paper wasp nest under a picnic table bench right next to the leg of an unaware picnicer who was swinging his leg back and forth.  Despite the emanent danger, the wasps were not provoked.  Right now we have a paper wasp next next to our front door.  Every member of my family passes within a foot or two of the nest several times a day.  The wasps have shown no sign of aggression.\n\nMud Daubers are also difficult to provoke.\n\nLuckily, Mud Daubers and Paper Wasps these are the most common wasps in Florida!  This keeps my outdoor romps safe.  Relatively.\n\nBut that doesn't mean all wasps are hard to provoke.  I have only been stung once by a wasp, and the nearest I passed to his nest was about seven feet!  I never did figure out what species that was, but he was plenty aggressive!\n\nYellowjackets and hornets all have reputations for being very aggressive.  I have no reason to doubt this.\n\nIt's worth noting that if you spend any time outdoors, you are surrounded by wasps all the time.  Most wasps are small and easily mistaken for flies.  If wasps, as a whole, we're really aggressive, humanity would never have survived.  Many wasps cannot even sting (such as the very scary looking, but harmless, Ichneumon wasp).
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Insects do not have an internal skeletal system, they have exoskeletons.  So all insects are invertibrates.
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As far as I know the largest bee or wasp in the world is the Japanese giant wasp (Vespa mandarinia).  They are big, fierce, nasty-tempered beasts, but they 'only' reach 2 inches in length, not feet.\n\nHere is little National Geographic article about them. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html\n\nThe largest flying insect ever known, Meganeura was a dragonfly that lived about 280 million years ago.  It had a wingspan of close to 2 feet, but it's body was not that long, nor as robust as a bee's or wasp's body would be.\n\nIf there was a 2 foot long bee in a museum it is likely that it was a model mock-up, blown up in size for dramatic purposes and/or to show details that would be hard to see on a life-size display.
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Any insect, any crustatcean (crab or lobster), any spider, one specific scorpion.\n\nSo you can choose any or I'll name 4:\nAnt, Lobster, Black Widow, Scorpion
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Doesn't sound familiar, but here's a link to an article about North America's "medically significant" spiders. take a look at the photos. If it's not on here, chances are you don't have to worry about it.\n\nhttp://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/research/dangspid.htm