有时被看成是胡蜂属的一个亚属；群居的黄蜂。

Sometimes considered a subgenus of vespa: social wasps.

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蜾蠃，蜾蠃蜂：非群居的黄蜂中的一种，尤指属于壶巢胡蜂亚科的几种筑泥巢的蜂。

Any of various solitary wasps, especially of the subfamily Eumeninae, that build nests of mud.

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它们是哺乳动物的杰出代表，像蜜蜂一样过群居生活，和蚂蚁、蜜蜂、黄蜂以及白蚁一样有组织。

They are uniquely eusocial amongst mammals, meaning they are hive-like and massively organized creatures like ants, bees, wasps and termites only much much larger and scarier looking.

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