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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Use of flight interception traps of Malaise type and Attractive Traps for social wasps record (Vespidae: Polistinae) [PDF]
Sociobiology, 2015 The literature provides different methodologies for collecting social wasps, including, flight intercept trap type Malaise and Attractive trap, however, there is no consensus on its use. In this respect, the aim of this study was to evaluate the best use
Marcos Magalhães Souza +3 more
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The social wasps as a reservoir of non-Saccharomyces yeasts for bio-protection strategies in winemaking [PDF]
Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologyRecent studies on yeast-insect associations demonstrated that social wasps of the genera Polistes and Vespula act as a reservoir for the conservation of yeasts and as vectors capable of transferring such yeasts on the grapes.
Damiano Barbato +5 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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Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Significance Despite the widespread interest on Saccharomyces cerevisiae , its wild lifestyle is far from being completely understood, with one of the most resounding examples being its sexual attitude.
Stefanini I +5 more
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Social wasps promote social behavior in Saccharomyces spp. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Production of fermented beverages and bread making represents a multibillion dollar worldwide industry (1) with its origins linked to the Middle East nearly 10,000 y ago (2). Despite this long history, the cause of fermentation was not discovered until the pioneering work beginning in the middle of the 19th century when Louis Pasteur demonstrated that ...
Blackwell M, Kurtzman CP.
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Cuticular hydrocarbons as caste-linked cues in Neotropical swarm-founding wasps [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Wasps (Vespidae) are important organisms to understand the evolution of social behaviour. Wasps show different levels of sociality, which includes solitary to highly eusocial organisms.
Rafael Carvalho da Silva +5 more
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Nectários extra-florais de Sapium obovatum (Euphorbiaceae) como recurso alimentar de vespas sociais
Entomological Communications, 2023 Social wasps can feed on a wide variety of animal and plant resources, however, there is little information available in the literature on the use of extra-floral nectaries (EFNs) as a food resource.
Glauco C. S. Oliveira +2 more
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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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New records of social wasps in the state of Paraíba, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2015 The state of Paraíba is included in the semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil, called Caatinga, and this region is characterized by low and irregular rainfall, with xerophilous vegetation.
Thiago Elisei +3 more
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