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Social Wasps of the Huron Mountains, Michigan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Ten species of social wasps were collected from the Huron Mountains area, Marquette Count, Michigan during me summers of 1983-1985.
O\u27Brien, Mark F
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Carnivory in Adult Female Eumenid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) and Its Effect on Egg Production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Seventy captive adult female wasps of the eumenid genera Ancistrocerus and Euodynerus were observed to feed on multiple prey items. It was shown experimentally that E.
Chilcutt, Charles F, Cowan, David P
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Evaluating the efficiency of different sampling methods to survey social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in an anthropized environment

open access: yesSociobiology, 2018
Social wasps play important ecological roles, such as the natural biological control of other arthropods as well as major components of the flower-visiting insect guild.
Gabriel Castro Jacques   +5 more
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Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Eusocial insects, mostly Hymenoptera, have evolved unique colonial lifestyles that rely on the perception of social context mainly through pheromones, and chemoreceptors are hypothesized to have played important adaptive roles in the evolution of ...
Berger, Shelley L   +5 more
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Occurrence of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in a Sugarcane Culture

open access: yesSociobiology, 2018
Predation of Lepidoptera caterpillars - including agricultural pest species - is one of the main ways through which social wasps gather proteinaceous resources.
Bruno Corrêa Barbosa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps’ Social Life

open access: yes, 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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First record of Elasmus polistis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoid of Polistes versicolor (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), in Minas Gerais, Brazil

open access: yesSociobiology, 2022
The social wasps of the order Hymenoptera, family Vespidae and subfamily Polistinae, perform important ecological functions such as pollination and predation, including pest insects, and can be an important resource in biological control.
Gabriel Castro Jacques   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political Comedy in Aristophanes [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
This paper argues that Aristophanic comedy, although it takes contemporary political life as its point of departure, is not political in the sense of aiming to influence politics outside the theatre.
Heath, M.
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Community Structure and Composition of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Different Vegetation Types in São Paulo, Brazil

open access: yesSociobiology, 2020
Social wasps participate in food webs, act as biological control agents in small crops and the natural environment, and act as potential pollinators. The objective of this study was to carry out an inventory of social wasps in five phytophysiognomies ...
Mateus Aparecido Clemente   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Camponotus renggeri (Formicidae) predated Agelaia vicina (Vespidae) nest and occupied Parachartergus pseudapicalis (Vespidae) nest

open access: yesSociobiology, 2022
Ants prey on social wasps affecting the evolution of nest architecture, defense behaviors, and selection of nesting sites of these insects. The importance of social wasps in natural and agricultural ecosystems, especially in biological control ...
Marcos Magalhães de Souza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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