Polistes dominula, pictured here, can't tell individuals apart—but it can distinguish broad patterns in faces that denote strength. Photo Credit: Dann Thombs, flickr. Share.

Some individuals in cooperative groups choose to help in rearing the broods of conspecific females. Through observations of how females of Polistes simillimus Zikán, 1951 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) ...

Sabina George, 79, spotted the Polistes Nimpha paper wasp at Compton Verney Art Gallery, in Warwickshire, and said she knew it was "something different".

The use of venom extract from polistes species as the inhibitory phase (immunoblot inhibition) inhibited these proteins in serum from the patients and from the Hymenoptera-positive control subjects.

The problem attacked in this work, viz. “an. inquiry into the nature and probable causes of specific differentiation in the genus Polistes,” is one which is both difficult and perplexing.

"In Polistes metricus wasps you have behavior that's more similar to what you might see in a maternal ancestor," Toth said. "That was really important for our study." ...

New control innovations are being examined to help manage a pest wasp on the small Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, more than 2700 ...

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 ...

Sabina George, 79, spotted the Polistes Nimpha paper wasp at Compton Verney Art Gallery, in Warwickshire, and said she knew it was "something different". Steven Falk, ...