Hornets, yellow jackets, Polistes, mud daubers, and the cicada killer are all wasps, a group of beneficial insects that attack and destroy other insects found around homes and in gardens. Wasps, ...

A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by a group of Brazilian researchers concludes that the nearer the habitat ...

germanica, worker Vespula squamosa (Drury), worker D. maculata, worker Vespa crabro L., and female Polistes dominulus F. In Oklahoma, the blend was attractive to worker V. maculifrons, worker V.

Abstract: In this paper we described a simplified model for a case of functional self-organization. It deals with the emergence of a particular form of task assignment and parallel hierarchical ...