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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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Wasps, social and solitary [PDF]
Nature, 1905 n ...
George W. Peckham, Elizabeth G. Peckham
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Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps’ Social Life
, 2022 Vibrational communication, the use of the surface-borne component of mechanical waves, is widespread in arthropods, but its role is almost unknown for the majority of species. The preponderance of other communication modalities has often masked the occurrence of vibrational communication, even when observations suggested that substrate-borne waves were
Nieri R. +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 +2 more
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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 +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 +7 more
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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 +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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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 +3 more
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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 +2 more
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