Potter Wasps of Florida, Eumenes spp. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
EDIS, 2007 EENY-403, a 3-page fact sheet by E. E. Grissell, is part of the Featured Creatures Collection. It describes this wasp which make the familiar jug-like nests found around the home, its distribution, identification, biology, and economic importance ...
E. E. Grissell
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Review of the potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) with a petiolate metasoma from Indonesian Archipelago [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2020 The taxonomy and biogeography of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma occurring in the Indonesian Archipelago are reviewed. Literature review and specimens examination were carried out for the present study.
Jun-Ichi Kojima
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The potter wasps of the Maltese Islands (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2022 The eumenine fauna of the Maltese Islands is reviewed and 17 species are asserted as occurring in the mentioned territory. Of these, Parodontodynerus ephippium and Stenodynerus fastidiosissimus are recorded for the first time from the Maltese archipelago.
Thomas Cassar, David Mifsud, Marco Selis
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Potter wasps of the genus Labus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Vietnam, with description of two new species [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2020 Taxonomy of the potter wasps of the genus Labus from Vietnam is reviewed, with six species recorded. Of them, one species previously identified as L. clypeatus van der Vecht, 1935 is described as new, namely L. angulus, sp. nov.
Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen +1 more
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Trapped honey bees reduce floral visitation on milkweed flowers. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Trapped arthropods have been shown to benefit plants in several ways, but few studies have examined the potential costs of arthropod entanglement. Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) have an unusual pollination system that requires relatively large packets of pollen (pollinia) to become attached to the appendages of insect pollinators and be pulled ...
Jett ID, Yang LH.
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Additional reports of solitary potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in Bhutan
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 The knowledge on subfamily Eumeninae is still in its infancy in Bhutan. Eumenid species of Bhutan is increased to 22 with the report of 11 more species and an additional subspecies in this paper.
Tshering Nidup +3 more
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New records of petiolate potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Bhutan
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 A total of seven species from five genera, Delta de Saussure, 1855, Eumenes Latreille, 1802, Pareumenes (de Saussure, 1855), Labus de Saussure, 1867, and Zethus Fabricius, 1804, belonging to the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae are documented ...
Tshering Nidup +4 more
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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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Taxonomy of the genus Epsilon from China, with a new species and an updated key to the Oriental species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 A new species of potter wasps, Epsilon similimanasicum sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Zhejiang, China. The holotype specimen of Epsilon subfistulosum (Wickwar, 1908) was examined and based on the characters of the type specimen, it is ...
Xue Zhang, Bin Chen, Ting-Jing Li
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Frequency and consequences of the collection of already parasitized caterpillars by a potter wasp [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractMaladaptive behaviors reflecting a “bad” choice of habitat or resource have been widely documented; however, their persistence is often difficult to interpret. The potter waspDelta dimidiatipenneconstructs mud cells, in each of which it lays a single egg and places several caterpillars to feed its offspring.
Michal Segoli +5 more
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