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Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2007 We collected 40 colonies of the wasp Polistes satan in November 1993 (Population A = 23 colonies) and October 1995 (Population B = 17 colonies) from the town of Delfinopólis in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Jane Cristina Wehren Gaspar +2 more
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Nestmate Recognition in Social Insects: What Does It Mean to Be Chemically Insignificant?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Social insects use the blend of hydrocarbons present on their cuticle to efficiently distinguish nestmates from aliens. Intruders must therefore find a strategy to break the recognition code in order to exploit the colony resources. Twenty years ago, the
Maria Cristina Lorenzi +2 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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Pest Control Potential of Social Wasps in Small Farms and Urban Gardens
Insects, 2019 In environments undergoing constant transformation due to human action, such as deforestation and urbanization, the emergence of pests has become a challenge for agriculture and human welfare.
F. Prezoto +4 more
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Біологічні студії, 2023 Background. The article presents data obtained as a result of our research on the territory of Rivne Nature Reserve during 2018–2022. We collected 118 individuals belonging to 43 species, 19 genera from the Crabronidae, Sphecidae, Scoliidae, and ...
Sophia Pytel-Huta
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Carnivory in Adult Female Eumenid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) and Its Effect on Egg Production [PDF]
, 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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Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps
Biology Letters, 2019 Transitive inference (TI) is a form of logical reasoning that involves using known relationships to infer unknown relationships (A > B; B > C; then A > C). TI has been found in a wide range of vertebrates but not in insects.
E. Tibbetts +3 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2023 We present a genome assembly from an individual Buathra laborator (Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae). The genome sequence is 330 megabases in span. Over 60% of the assembly is scaffolded into 11 chromosomal pseudomolecules.
Matt Smith, Gavin R. Broad
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2017 Despite the fact that E. chlorotica (Linnaeus, 1766) is common and widely distributed in South America, the reproductive aspects of the species are poorly documented. Here we present data on 18 active nests found from August to February, between 2007 and
Daniel F. Perrella +4 more
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A Historical Review of Management Options Used against the Stable Fly (Diptera: Muscidae)
Insects, 2020 The stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), remains a significant economic pest globally in situations where intensive animal production or horticultural production provide a suitable developmental medium.
David Cook
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