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Don’t Spray the Wasps! Using \u3ci\u3ePolistes\u3c/i\u3e Paper Wasps for Pest Management in the Home Garden [PDF]
, 2011 Pest control poses a challenge to all gardeners, especially those wishing to use organic practices. We examined the potential use of Polistes paper wasps as a bio-control agent in the organic backyard garden.
Goldsmith, Laura, Henshaw, Michael
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 340-356, August 2025.Abstract This review provides a synthesis of the available knowledge on Carmenta foraseminis, an emerging cocoa pest in northern South America. This moth was first described in 1995 in Panama, and its proliferation across the Amazon basin is currently threatening the production of cocoa in the region and may endanger the sector's sustainability. Hence,
Mónica Arias +9 more
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, 2023 Published as part of Gudin, Filipe Macedo, 2023, Annotated Catalog of Vespid Hosts (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Tachinidae (Diptera), with Description of a New Species of Ophirion Townsend from Brazil, pp.
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Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2025.Abstract Urban ecosystems can act as hotspots for diverse taxa, especially pollinators. However, it is not clear whether urban environments function as high‐quality habitat as opposed to demographic sinks or ecological traps. In recent years, a nonmigratory, winter‐breeding population of monarch butterflies has established in urban gardens in Northern ...
E. Erickson, C. B. Schultz, E. E. Crone
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The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina calcarata [PDF]
, 2016 Understanding the evolution of animal societies, considered to be a major transition in evolution, is a key topic in evolutionary biology. Recently, new gateways for understanding social evolution have opened up due to advances in genomics, allowing for ...
Glastad, Karl M. +3 more
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Austral Entomology, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2025.Abstract The genus Tetramesa Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) comprises over 200 species of herbivorous wasps that feed exclusively on grasses. Recent field surveys in South Africa for grass biological control programs have uncovered a large diversity of potential Tetramesa on African grasses.
Clarke J. M. van Steenderen +4 more
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, 2011 Published as part of Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, pp.
Kojima, Jun-Ichi +2 more
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EntomoBrasilis, 2015 The attack behavior of Elaumus polistis Burks in the nest cells of Polistes versicolor (Oliver) was recorded for the first time in South America. We observed that E. polistis flies in front of the P.
Thiago Marinho Alvarenga +4 more
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Alternative Nesting Strategies of Polistine Wasps in a Subtropical Locale
Insects, 2022 Phylogenetic studies suggest that historically all paper wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in North America have tropical origins, but some species have adapted to survive temperate conditions.
Scott Nacko +2 more
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Potential expanded pollinator distributions in North America under future climate
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.Most pollinator species, including monarch butterflies, may gain potential climate space in the future. Shifting to new locations is an additional challenge of climate change. Management, restoration and citizen participation to provide resources and reduce stressors are ecological solutions.
Brice B. Hanberry
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