“It shows a bridge between expertise… and a more hardwired system.” In a closely related species, Polistes metricus, or the metricus paper wasp, nests more commonly support single-queen ...

keeps the peace in the colony," says Sheehan. The nests of a related species, Polistes metricus, each contain a single queen, so Sheehan and Tibbetts reasoned that these queens would be bad with ...

The research team focused on the expression of behavior-related genes in Polistes metricus paper wasps, a species for which little genetic data was available when the study was begun. Their ...

Polistes metricus paper wasp queens with bold personalities and big bodies tend to produce larger colonies than their smaller, shyer counterparts, a new study finds. These queenly characteristics ...

When the larvae of the primitive social insect Polistes metricus, a paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn’t know if she’ll arise a worker or gyne (future queen ...

But if you look closer at the face of a paper wasp Polistes fuscatus ... the solitary paper wasp P.metricus. Even after training, these wasps couldn’t discriminate between pairs of faces ...

When the larvae of the primitive social insect Polistes metricus, a paper wasp, slips into the quiet pupal stage, she doesn't know if she'll arise a worker or gyne (future queen) -- unless she ...

As a young graduate student in 2001, one of us (Tibbetts) was working on a project focused on detailing the social lives of Polistes fuscatus ... the opportunity, P. metricus wasps can learn ...

The other species, Polistes metricus, has nests with only one queen. Being able to visually recognise faces makes sense with living in a situation with multiple queens. "There is a linear ...

This skill isn’t found in the closely related but comparatively solitary Polistes metricus, who have only a single queen, and are much slower to learn to identify individual faces. Since this ...

The research team focused on the expression of behavior-related genes in Polistes metricus paper wasps, a species for which little genetic data was available when the study was begun. Like honey ...