<P> Wasp (1957) is a science fiction book by the English writer Eric Frank Russell; it is generally considered Russell's best novel . In Stieg Larsson's book The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) and its film adaptation, Lisbeth Salander has adopted her kickboxing ringname, "The Wasp", as her hacker handle and has a wasp tattoo on her neck, indicating her high status among hackers, unlike her real world situation, and that like a small but painfully stinging wasp, she could be dangerous . </P> <P> Parasitoidal wasps played an indirect role in the nineteenth - century evolution debate . The Ichneumonidae contributed to Charles Darwin's doubts about the nature and existence of a well - meaning and all - powerful Creator . In an 1860 letter to the American naturalist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote: </P> <P> I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us . There seems to me too much misery in the world . I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice . </P> <P> With its powerful sting and familiar appearance, the wasp has given its name to many ships, aircraft and military vehicles . Nine ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wasp, the first an 8 - gun sloop launched in 1749 . Eleven ships of the United States Navy have similarly borne the name USS Wasp, the first a merchant schooner acquired by the Continental Navy in 1775 . The eighth of these, an aircraft carrier, gained two Second World War battle stars, prompting Winston Churchill to remark "Who said a Wasp couldn't sting twice?" In the Second World War, a German self - propelled howitzer was named Wespe, while the British developed the Wasp flamethrower from the Bren Gun Carrier . In aerospace, the Westland Wasp was a military helicopter developed in England in 1958 and used by the Royal Navy and other navies . The AeroVironment Wasp III is a miniature UAV developed for United States Air Force special operations . </P>

Insect means something such as a fly an ant a wasp or a caterpillar