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Differential Properties of Venom Peptides and Proteins in Solitary vs. Social Hunting Wasps

Toxins, 2016
The primary functions of venoms from solitary and social wasps are different. Whereas most solitary wasps sting their prey to paralyze and preserve it, without killing, as the provisions for their progeny, social wasps usually sting to defend their ...
Si Hyeock Lee, Ji Hyeong Baek, Kyungjae Andrew Yoon   +2 more
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Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems. [PDF]

PLoS Biol, 2023
Smith ML, Loope KJ, Chuttong B, Dobelmann J, Makinson JC, Saga T, Petersen KH, Napp N.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Community of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in Atlantic Forest remnants in the Western of the state of Paraná, Southern Brazil

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, Taiguara Pereira de Gouvêa, José Adolfo Mota de Almeida, Norma Barbado, Carolina Yumi Shiamamoto, Marcos Magalhães de Souza   +5 more
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Social wasps of Unilavras/Boqueirão Biological Reserve, Ingaí, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]

Check List, 2011
Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) usually build nests using vegetable materials mixed with water and salivary secretion, resulting in a product similar to paper.
Matheus Henrique-Simões, Mariana Cuozzo, Fernando Frieiro-Costa   +2 more
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Hunting from the air: A new record of predation of Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804) (Vespidae: Polistinae) on a katydid Parascudderia sp. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) in the Peruvian Amazon

Entomological Communications, 2022
Social wasps capture adult and/or immature insects to feed their larvae. Frequent observations indicate mainly small or immature insects as their prey. However, there are very few records of social wasps as predators of larger living insects. Herein, we
Raul B. Pinedo Garcia, Rommel R. Rojas, Carol Sánchez, Diego M. M. Mendes, Alexandre Somavilla   +4 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, Onour Moeri, Tanya Jones, Catherine Scott, Grigori Khaskin, Regine Gries, Sean O'Donnell, Gerhard Gries   +7 more
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Biological Notes on the Parasitism of Apoica flavissima Van der Vecht (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) by Seminota marginata (Westwood) (Hymenoptera: Trigonalidae): Are Social Paper Wasps Primary or Secundary Hosts of Trigonalidae?

Sociobiology, 2013
Hosts of Trigonalidae include larvae of social paper wasps, which have been considered secondary hosts, supposedly following predation of the primary host (usually caterpillars) by adult wasps.
Eduardo Fernando dos Santos, Fernando Barbosa Noll   +1 more
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Natural Biological Control of Diaphania spp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) by Social Wasps

Sociobiology, 2014
The social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) are important agents of biological control for agricultural pests. Diaphania hyalinata L. and Diaphania nitidalis Cramer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) are among the main pests of plants in the Cucurbitaceae family ...
Marcelo Coutinho Picanço
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Contribution on the eating habits and new records of Mirothrips arbiter Cavalleri, Souza, Prezoto & Mound, 2013 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) in Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) wasp nests

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2023
New host wasps attacked by Mirothrips arbiter (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) are recorded and their possible feeding on fungi and mites in colonies of Polistes melanosoma and Polistes ferreri is evaluated.
Bruno Corrêa Barbosa, Tatiane Tagliatti Maciel, Adriano Cavalleri, Fábio Prezoto   +3 more
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The Wasps. Howard E. Evans and Mary Jane West Eberhard, with drawings by Sarah Landry. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1970. vi, 265 pp. Paper, $3.45. [PDF]

, 2017
Excerpt: This pocket-sized book is indeed a high point in recent entomological literature. Concisely written, and including a remarkable amount of new or recently published information, The Wasps is essentially a comparative natural history of these ...
Matthews, Robert W.
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