Wasp (disambiguation)
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A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp or WASP may also refer to:

Insects

• Common wasp or Vespula vulgaris, a wasp found in much of the Northern Hemisphere
• German wasp or Vespula germanica, a wasp native to Europe, northern Africa, and temperate Asia
• Mud daubers, the common name for several wasps that build their nests from mud
• Yellowjacket, the common name in North America for predatory wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula

Aviation

• Pratt & Whitney Wasp, series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
• Westland Wasp, British-built light shipborne helicopter
• Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
• Williams Aerial Systems Platform, also known as the "flying pulpit"

Culture

• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• The Wasp (magazine), 19th-century San Francisco magazine
• The Wasp (newspaper), 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

Fiction

• Wasp (novel), by Eric Frank Russell
• Wasp (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Wasp (film), by Andrea Arnold
• The Wasp (film), 1915 short by B. Reeves Eason
• The Wasps, comic play by Aristophanes
• Waspinator, sometimes Wasp, several Transformers characters
• World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

Military

• Westland Wasp, a shipboard anti-submarine helicopter in the 1960s
• Curtiss 18 Wasp, World War I triplane
• HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Wasp, several ships of the U.S. Navy
• Women Airforce Service Pilots
• AGM-124 Wasp, experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile
• The Wasp, a Flame tank used by Canadians in WWII

Music

• W.A.S.P. (band), American rock/metal band
  • W.A.S.P. (album), their self-titled album
• "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors
• EDP Wasp, monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
• The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Programming and computers

• Web Application Structure for PHP
• Web Standards Project

Other

• WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
• Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
• York Wasps, English rugby league club now known as the York City Knights
• London Wasps, English rugby union club
• Wireless Application Service Provider
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
• WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs
• SuperWASP, or Wide Angle Search for Planets, a British group searching for extra-solar planets
• WASP (AM), AM radio station located in Brownsville, Pennsylvania

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