Vulvar lamina: in Odonata, the posterior margin of sternum of segment 8.
Vulvar scale: = v. lamina.
Wart: a spongy excrescence, more or less cylindric, with a nearly truncated tip: the enlarged, common base of a group of seta: in Trichoptera, a pitted elevation.
Wax: a ductile substance excreted by bees and other insects from glandular structures in various parts of the body, used in building cells or in forming a protective covering.
Wax-cutter: the pincer-like structure formed by the hind tibia and metatarsus in social bees.
Wax-glands: any glands in any part of the body which secrete a waxy product in either a scale, string or powder: in Coccidae, the circumgenital and parastigmatic glands; q.v.
Wax-pincer: = wax cutter.
Wax-scale: one of the scales secreted in the wax pocket or gland of a worker bee.
Whitlows: = paronychia; q.v.