##  [Busy buzzing bugs in yellow and black](/en/quiz/busy-buzzing-bugs-in-yellow-and-black-eng)

All those stinging or buzzing insects with their yellow-and-black-striped abdomens—how does a body keep them straight? Fortunately, entomology, the study of insects, has provided all these flying creatures with their own specific names, in both English and French. Can you recognize these insects (or their family) in the descriptions and clues below? We’ll juzzt zzzee if you can!

1. Queen, worker or dronewasp

hornet

hoverfly

bee

2. An aggressive insect that can sting about ten times in a single minutehorsefly

hornet

wasp

3. A large biting and bloodsucking fly that feeds on the blood of animals and humanscockchafer

bumblebee

horsefly

4. A plump, hairy insect that is larger than a beehorsefly

bumblebee

drone

5. A large red-and-yellow insect with a black thorax, whose sting is very painfulred wasp

horsefly

hornet

6. The male honeybeeworker

drone

bumblebee

7. A fly with a yellow-and-black abdomen and short antennae, that flies rapidlybee

wasp

hoverfly

8. Sterile females that maintain the hive and gather pollen from flowersworkers

bumblebees

drones

bees

9. The bee, bumblebee, wasp and hornet belong to which order of insects?Diptera

Hymenoptera

Coleoptera

10. The horsefly and the hoverfly belong to which order of insects?Hymenoptera

Coleoptera

Diptera