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Queen signaling in social wasps. [PDF]
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2014 sponsorship: We are grateful to K.R. Foster for providing us with the original data of his studies of Vespine wasps and to all members of the Copenhagen Centre for Social Evolution for providing a stimulating working environment. JSvZ and PdE were supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Danish Council for Independent Research (FNU 09-066595 ...
van Zweden, Jelle +3 more
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Climate change impact on neotropical social wasps. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Establishing a direct link between climate change and fluctuations in animal populations through long-term monitoring is difficult given the paucity of baseline data.
Alain Dejean +8 more
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An integrative taxonomic and phylogenetic approach reveals a new Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp, Pseudopolybia cryptica sp. n. (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2021 Phenotypic characters are traditionally the main information for species discrimination in taxonomic studies of invertebrates. However, the presence of inter- and intraspecific polymorphism makes it difficult to identify species in many groups such as ...
Alexandre Somavilla +4 more
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EntomoBrasilis, 2023 The study of relationships between living beings is essential for understanding the functioning of the ecosystem for the management and conservation of biota, especially in rich and threatened biomes such as the Brazilian Cerrado.
Gabriel de Castro Jacques +3 more
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Toxins, 2021 Wasps, members of the order Hymenoptera, are distributed in different parts of the world, including Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Korea, and Argentina. The lifestyles of the wasps are solitary and social.
Aida Abd El-Wahed +15 more
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Strike fast, strike hard: the red-throated caracara exploits absconding behavior of social wasps during nest predation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Red-throated Caracaras Ibycter americanus (Falconidae) are specialist predators of social wasps in the Neotropics. It had been proposed that these caracaras possess chemical repellents that allow them to take the brood of wasp nests without being ...
Sean McCann +7 more
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Bioscience Journal, 2019 The State of Rio Grande do Sul is a major producer of grapes in Brazil, highlighting the Serra Gaúcha as the main producing region. In the pursuit of good quality in grapes it is essential the control of pests, especially insects.
Ida Maria de Oliveira +3 more
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The Nesting Ecology of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae and Polistinae) in Northern Mongolia [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2018 Observations on the nesting characteristics and colony life of Mongolian social wasps are essential to the field due to the peripheral locations of species distribution ranges and critical lack of such information.
Buyanjargal Batchuluun +2 more
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EntomoBrasilis, 2022 Ecosystem fragmentation negatively affects biological diversity and compromises different environmental services. This situation occurs in two important biomes in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. There is little information on the effects of
Maria Luiza Santana Coelho +3 more
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Toxins, 2020 To identify and compare venom components and expression patterns, venom gland-specific transcriptome analyses were conducted for 14 Aculeate bees and wasps.
Kyungjae Andrew Yoon +7 more
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