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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 89, Issue 3)Listen, There was a wasp nest in the rafters, just outside the door to apartment 18, next to the freeway. In the early mornings I would stand on the walkway, listening to the buzz of them building their nest. It was...
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From:Science (Vol. 292, Issue 5526) Peer-ReviewedAnimal signaling is usually studied in terms of just two parties--sender and receiver. Doutrelant et al. show that the nature of one-to-one communication can be altered by the presence of an onlooker. Male Siamese...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 88, Issue 4)Last spring, wasps took over the bluebird house. Squatters gnawing out the entryway for the wood and saliva soup needed for nests. Good tenants they were too-- clean, quiet, busy: each egg nestled in its hexagonal crib,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Robert M. Brucker 1 , * , Seth R. Bordenstein 1 , 2 , * Introduction The genus Nasonia is a genetic model for research in evolution, behavior, development, and symbiosis [1]. Nasonia is a versatile...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Valerie E. Peters * Introduction The relatively low degree of spatiotemporal variation in flower and fruit availability in Neotropical forests has favored the evolution of more diverse communities of...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGenetic variation in the ability of wasps to successfully parasitize an aphid host is investigated. The results show that there is a significant degree of genetic variance within the population that was studied. Additive...
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From:Tribulus (Vol. 18) Peer-ReviewedA great number of adult nocturnal moth species belonging to many different families are attracted to artificial light, particularly ultraviolet light. The phenomenon is so well known that light trapping has, for more...
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From:Brazilian Journal of Biology (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe genus Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912, included in Polysphincta genus-group (sensu Wahl and Gauld 1998), is currently represented by 14 species distributed from Mexico and Cuba to Southern Brazil (Gauld, 2000; Gauld...
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From:Brazilian Journal of Biology (Vol. 71, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedParasitoids are of great importance to forest ecosystems due to their ecological role in the regulation of the population of other insects. The species richness and abundance of parasitoids in the forest canopy and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSpecies within the same trophic level show different strategies to avoid competition. Among these mechanisms, differences in body size, spatio-temporal segregation, and diet preference often leads to a niche...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 4, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDiploid males in hymenopterans are generally either inviable or sterile, thus imposing a severe genetic load on populations. In species with the widespread single locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), sex...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedGiant honeybees (Apis dorsata) nest in the open and have evolved a plethora of defence behaviors. Against predatory wasps, including hornets, they display highly coordinated Mexican wave-like cascades termed...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 4) Peer-ReviewedTemperature and host stage are important factors that determine the successful development of parasitoids. Aenasius bambawalei Hayat (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) is a primary parasitoid of the newly invasive mealybug,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWhen the cerambycid, Phoracantha recurva, invaded California in the mid 1990's a parasitoid wasp was imported from its native range in Australia as part of a biological control program. The wasp was later identified to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedRecent studies have reported incipient morphological caste dimorphism in the Van der Vecht organ size of some temperate Polistes paper wasps. Whether species other than the temperate ones show a similar pattern remains...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArsenophonus nasoniae, a male-killing endosymbiont of chalcid wasps, was recently detected in several hard tick species. Following the hypothesis that its presence in ticks may not be linked to the direct occurrence of...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground Nasonia vitripennis, a parasitic wasp, is a good model organism to study developmental and evolutionary genetics and to evaluate the interactions between insect hosts and their symbionts. Wolbachia may be...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this experiment was to investigate whether honey bees (Apis mellifera) are able to use social discriminative stimuli in a spatial aversive conditioning paradigm. We tested bees' ability to avoid shock in...
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From:Brazilian Journal of Biology (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this study, we describe and present original data on the bionomics and ecology of Tachygonus erythroxyli Hespenheide, New Species, on Erythroxylum subsessile (Mart.). Thirty individuals of E. subsessile were analysed...
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From:Science (Vol. 300, Issue 5622) Peer-ReviewedOne of the best examples of mutualism--evolved interdependence between two species of organism--is the relationship between figs and their pollinating wasps. Female wasps pollinate some of the fig's flowers, which are...