“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 ...

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 ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los investigadores probaron el mismo experimento con otra especie de avispa, Polistes metricus, y comprobaron que no adquirían esta habilidad. El reconocimiento individual es esencial para la avispa ...

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 ...

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 ...