They can be found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers, foliage, and in leaf litter, but are often overlooked due to their very small size, which includes the smallest of all known insects (Dicopomorpha echmepterygis).
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Copidosoma floridanum serves as a useful example of a wasp that provides pest control, and most recently, the wasp's genome is being sequenced by the Human Genome Sequencing Center as part of the i5K project, which aims to sequence the genomes of 5,000 arthropods.
In addition to their pollinators, Ficus species are exploited by a group of non-pollinating chalcidoid wasps whose larvae develop in its figs.
wasp | Wasp | WASP | Westland Wasp | Wasp (comics) | The Wasp Factory | WASP (AM) | Sand wasp | Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major | Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp | Pollinating fig wasp (''Ceratosolen'' sp.) collected on ''Ficus septica | Poirot's Early Cases#Wasp's Nest | Median wasp | Fig wasp | European paper wasp (''Polistes dominula | Edward J. Wasp | Chalcid wasp | ABC Wasp |