My saga of the wasp involves a kind called Polistes, which builds a relatively small but open paper nest, a cluster of brood cells, usually found on buildings. The nests, when discovered ...

They studied the northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus), which can be found across eastern North America. Researchers singled out specific northern paper wasps to observe other northern paper ...

In a closely related species, Polistes metricus, or the metricus paper wasp, nests more commonly support single-queen monarchies—a simplified hierarchy that eliminates the need for detailed ...

Paper Wasps (Polistes sp.) Paper wasp queens survive the winter by nesting in protected places such as under the bark of trees or in cracks and crevices around structures. "Paper wasps are not as ...

from the much-maligned yellowjacket and hornets to a range of tropical paper wasps, with names that depict a devilish nature – such as Polistes satan. Twenty years later, I am still justifying ...

You've got some company in the animal kingdom—the wasp. Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy ...

Like honey bees and bumble bees, the two main "social wasp" groups—Polistes (paper wasps), and Vespula (ground-nesting wasps)—aren't native. But unlike bees, they are active predators of other ...

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, an expert in pollinators ...

Tibbetts spent a lot of time looking at paper wasps (Polistes dominulus). "I noticed all these different facial patterns and wondered why," she recalled. "And then, as I pursued it, I discovered ...