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.
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Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2023 The hexagonal cells built by honey bees and social wasps are an example of adaptive architecture; hexagons minimize material use, while maximizing storage space and structural stability.
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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.
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Ordering and topological defects in social wasps' nests. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Abstract Social insects have evolved a variety of architectural formations. Bees and wasps are well known for their ability to achieve compact structures by building hexagonal cells. Polistes wattii , an open nesting paper wasp species, builds planar hexagonal structures ...
Krishna S, Gopinath A, Bhattacharjee SM.
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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.
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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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Comparative Morphology of the Stinger in Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Bissessarsingh M, Starr CK.
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Wasps, social and solitary [PDF]
Nature, 1905 n ...
George W. Peckham, Elizabeth G. Peckham
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Novel strains of Actinobacteria associated with neotropical social wasps (Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini) with antimicrobial potential for natural product discovery. [PDF]
FEMS MicrobesChavarría-Pizarro L +5 more
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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.
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