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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Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 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. We show that the intestine of social wasps favors the mating of
Duccio Cavalieri, Irène Stefanini
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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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Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2023 Bajaree Chuttong +2 more
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Comparative Morphology of the Stinger in Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Christopher Starr
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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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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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Revista Agrogeoambiental, 2023 The Atlantic Forest is among the 36 biodiversity hotspots of the world. The southern region of this biome covers 52 conservation units (CUs), including the Bela Vista Biological Refuge (RBBV), which has actions based on biodiversity conservation ...
Lucas Ramos Vieira +5 more
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