Energetics of Paper Wasps (Polistes sp.) from Differing Climates during the Breeding Season [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Paper wasps are widely distributed in Europe. They live in the warm Mediterranean, and in the harsh Alpine climate. Some species are very careful in their choice of nesting sites to ensure a proper development of the brood.
Helmut Kovac +4 more
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Altered feeding behavior and immune competence in paper wasps: A case of parasite manipulation? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Paper wasps (Polistes dominula), parasitized by the strepsipteran Xenos vesparum, are castrated and desert the colony to gather on plants where the parasite mates and releases primary larvae, thus completing its lifecycle.
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Geographic variation in the status signals of Polistes dominulus paper wasps. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Understanding intraspecific geographic variation in animal signals poses a challenging evolutionary problem. Studies addressing geographic variation typically focus on signals used in mate-choice, however, geographic variation in intrasexual signals ...
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Market forces influence helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding paper wasps [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 In cooperatively breeding species, subordinates help to raise the dominant breeders’ offspring in return for benefits associated with group membership. Here, Grinsted and Field show that the amount of help provided by subordinate paper wasps depends on ...
Lena Grinsted, Jeremy Field
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Brighter-colored paper wasps (
Frontiers in Zoology, 2012 Introduction Aposematism is a defense system against predators consisting of the toxicity warning using conspicuous coloration. If the toxin production and aposematic coloration is costly, only individuals in good physical condition could simultaneously ...
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Self-complexification through integral feedback in eusocial paper wasps of various levels of sociality [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 We investigate how simple physical interactions can generate remarkable diversity in the life history of social agents using data of social wasps, yielding complex scalable task partitioning. We built and analyzed a computational model to investigate how
Thomas Schmickl, Istvan Karsai
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Dynamic neurogenomic responses to social interactions and dominance outcomes in female paper wasps. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2021 Social interactions have large effects on individual physiology and fitness. In the immediate sense, social stimuli are often highly salient and engaging.
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Paper wasps: A model clade for social cognition [PDF]
Current Opinion in NeurobiologyPaper wasps are a highly intelligent group of socially flexible insects with complex lives and variation in social structures. They engage in sophisticated communication within their small societies using olfaction, vibration, and even visual signals of quality or individual identity in some species.
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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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Honey wasps differ from other wasps in possessing large gut communities dominated by host-restricted bacteria [PDF]
mBioHoney-feeding social bees, including honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees, possess distinctive gut bacterial communities that provide benefits to hosts, such as defense against pathogens and parasites.
Jo-anne C. Holley +4 more
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