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Carnivory in Adult Female Eumenid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) and Its Effect on Egg Production [PDF]
, 2017 Seventy captive adult female wasps of the eumenid genera Ancistrocerus and Euodynerus were observed to feed on multiple prey items. It was shown experimentally that E.
Chilcutt, Charles F, Cowan, David P
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Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps
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.
E. Tibbetts +3 more
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Journal of Economic Entomology, 2020 Polistes paper wasps in the Fuscopolistes subgenus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) can be serious pests when they swarm at tall man-made structures. Chemical attractants may be useful to trap such paper wasps when they achieve pest status.
D. Elmquist +8 more
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Sociobiology, 2017 Wasps of the genus Polistes (Vespidae: Polistinae) are eusocial, considered valuable biological control agents. The objective of this work was to determine the resources collected by Polistes canadensis wasps, evaluate their performance and importance as
Matheus Montefusco Oliveira +3 more
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The strepsipteran endoparasite Xenos vesparum alters the immunocompetence of its host, the paper wasp Polistes dominulus [PDF]
, 2010 It is unexplained how strepsipteran insects manipulate the physiology of their hosts in order to undergo endoparasitic development without being entrapped by the innate immune defences of the host.
Beani, Laura +2 more
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Commodity risk assessment of oak and walnut logs from the US
EFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier from the United States proposing the use of a vacuum–steam–heat treatment as a stand‐alone phytosanitary measure to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum, Geosmithia morbida and its vector Pityophthorus juglandis (thousand cankers disease complex) into ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +30 more
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When a parasite breaks all the rules of a colony:morphology and fate of wasps infected by a strepsipteran endoparasite [PDF]
, 2011 The macroparasite Xenos vesparum affects both the behaviour and the physical traits of its host, the social wasp Polistes dominulus. Female wasps, if parasitized, do not perform any social tasks and desert the colony to gather at specific sites, where ...
Beani, Laura +5 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Vitis spp. plants from Moldova
EFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The European Commission requests EFSA to provide scientific opinions in the field of plant health in accordance with Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002. Annex VI of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 lists plants, plant products and other objects whose introduction into the Union from certain third countries is prohibited.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Nestmate recognition, i.e. the ability to discriminate nestmates from foreign individuals, is a crucial feature of insect societies and it has been traditionally considered to be predominantly based on chemical cues.
A. Cini +5 more
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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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