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Entomological Communications, 2023 Social wasps are known to be aggressive, and this trait causes some other animal species to associate with these insects. These associations appear to be common in nature, however, they are not easily located nor understood.
Eldair S. Silva +3 more
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EDIS, 2016 This EDIS publication is an alternate version of a page published first on the Featured Creatures website. The Featured Creatures collection provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms relevant to Florida.
Lizzie Paulus, Andrea Lucky
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Nesting of the keyhole wasp Pachodynerus nasidens (Latreille, 1812) (Vespidae, Eumeninae) in a nest of a paper wasp (Vespidae, Polistinae) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2022 Potter wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) adopt different substrates for nesting, including other wasp nests. Nevertheless, such behavior rarely occurs with abandoned nests of the paper wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae).
Gabriel de Castro Jacques +4 more
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What's best, online or on-site? The write a scientific paper course
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022 Background: The ability to publish is a career-critical skill but requires the acquisition of a wide and disparate skill set. The Write a Scientific Paper (WASP) course was created in Malta in 2010, an intensive, three-day event.
Victor Grech +2 more
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Write a Scientific Paper course – Utility or otherwise?
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022 Background: Publish or perish is a cliched mantra but publishing requires the acquisition of a wide set of disparate skills that are typically learned in a completely ad-hoc manner in an early period of one's career.
Victor Grech +2 more
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Long live the wasp: adult longevity in captive colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes canadensis (L.) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Insects have been used as an exemplary model in studying longevity, from extrinsic mortality pressures to intrinsic senescence. In the highly eusocial insects, great degrees of variation in lifespan exist between morphological castes in relation to ...
Robin J. Southon +3 more
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Modelling the impacts of an invasive species across landscapes: a step-wise approach [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 We estimate the extent of ecological impacts of the invasive Asian paper wasp across different landscapes in New Zealand. We used: (i) a baseline distribution layer (modelled via MaxEnt); (ii) Asian paper wasp nest density (from >460 field plots, related
Darren Ward, Fraser Morgan
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Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2019 Transitive inference (TI) is a form of logical reasoning that involves using known relationships to infer unknown relationships (A > B; B > C; then A > C). TI has been found in a wide range of vertebrates but not in insects. Here, we test whether Polistes dominula and Polistes metricus
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts +3 more
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Energies, 2020 This paper presents several applications of Wien Automatic System Planning (WASP) tool to address specific modeling challenges encountered in power system expansion planning problems.
Mladen Zeljko +3 more
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Allergology International, 2015 Background: Ves v 5 and Pol d 5, which constitute antigen 5, are recognized as the major, most potent allergens of family Vespidae. Several studies have reported the diagnostic sensitivity of the novel recombinant (r)Ves v 5 and rPol d 5 allergens in ...
Naruo Yoshida +6 more
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