New research shows that wasps drum to alert one another of food nearby
Have you ever had to shout to call your family to the dinner table?
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We faced abuse for asking people to kill wasps for science – here's why it was worthwhile
When we launched a citizen science project earlier this year, we didn't expect to get in so much trouble.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2017
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Wasps have trading partners and compete for the 'best trade deals': study
Wasps have trading partners and compete for the 'best trade deals'—according to scientists from the University of Sussex.
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2017
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The buzz on cicada killers
You might have noticed some large wasps in your yard or on campus this summer. These wasps are known as cicada killers, identified by their size and their black abdomens with three yellow spots on either side, rather than ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2016
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Call for arms and stings: Social wasps use alarm pheromones to coordinate their attacks
Humans might know them as vicious stingers, but yellow jacket wasps also impress with their vigorous protection over their young. To resolve the mystery around their complex defensive behavior, a Canadian research team, led ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2015
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Taking the 'sting' out of reproduction
(Phys.org) —Female parasitic wasps have more reproductive success when working together with other females, which can also explain sex biased reproduction, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2014
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The big bad wolf was right: Among wasps, bigger eyes evolved the better to see social cues
Some wasps have developed bigger eyes, and thus better vision, to read the social cues written on the faces of their sister wasps, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2014
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Social wasps accepted more frequently into unfamiliar colonies when both the individual and the group are young
Ants, wasps and humans live in highly complex societies. Our organizations share some basic features of group life, like individuals trying to find the balance between cooperation and conflict. Understanding what factors ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2014
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Evolutionary question answered: Ants more closely related to bees than to most wasps
(Phys.org) —Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists has discovered. ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2013
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Wasp transcriptome creates a buzz
New research delivers a sting in the tail for queen wasps. Scientists have sequenced the active parts of the genome – or transcriptome – of primitively eusocial wasps to identify the part of the genome that makes you ...
Biotechnology
Feb 25, 2013
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