To determine the effects of prey quantity on central-place foraging of predatory wasps (Polistes dominulus), prey of varying quality were distributed in patches. A field experiment was conducted, ...

The European and Mediterranean species of the paper wasp genus Polistes were recently revised by scientists at the SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM). For the first time for this group ...

The species of paper wasp is usually found in Southern Europe The first sighting of a species of wasp usually found in Southern Europe is believed to have been made on mainland Britain. Sabina George, ...

Each of fifteen triplets of three male Polistes fuscatus (each triplet consisting of two brothers and an unrelated male) was placed into a cardboard box and each observed over a period of two days for ...

An analysis of 429 specimens belonging to 39 species representative of the diversity of Polistes in the Americas confirmed the inverse of Bergmann’s rule by pointing to larger body size for species ...

IN the paper referred to below the author deals Very fully with the various colour variations observable in the species of the genus under notice, and a very interesting account is given of the ...

Les guêpes qui avaient leurs habitudes chez nous étaient des insectes nordiques de type vespula qui, à la faveur du réchauffement climatique, ont été progressivement remplacées par leur cousines ...

The European and Mediterranean species of the paper wasp genus Polistes were recently revised. For the first time for this group, scientists applied an integrative taxonomic approach which combines ...