Search Results - "WASP behavior"

Not so waspish.

Authors: Jones, Richard

Source: New Scientist. 3/21/2020, Vol. 245 Issue 3274, p41-43. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.

Subject Terms: *WASPS, *WASP behavior, *ECOSYSTEMS, *PEST control, *VENOM

Wasp Observations in Northern Victoria.

Authors: Richter, Reiner reiner@rnr.id.au

Source: Victorian Entomologist. Jun2019, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p51-55. 5p.

Subject Terms: *WASPS, *WASP behavior, *OVIPARITY, *SPHECIDAE

Geographic Terms: VICTORIA

The proportion of blue light affects parasitoid wasp behavior in LED-extended photoperiod in greenhouses: Increased parasitism and offspring sex ratio bias.

Authors: Cochard, Précillia Galstian, Tigran Cloutier, Conrad

Source: Biological Control. Jun2019, Vol. 133, p9-17. 9p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *PARASITOID behavior, *BLUE light, *PARASITISM, *SEX ratio, *GREENHOUSES

Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes).

Authors: Klopfstein, Seraina Langille, Barbara Spasojevic, Tamara et al.

Source: Systematic Entomology. Apr2019, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p361-383. 23p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *INSECT phylogeny, *MOLECULAR phylogeny, *NUCLEOTIDE sequence, *POLYMERASE chain reaction

How parasitic wasps find their hosts.

Authors: Tumlinson, James H. Lewis, W.Joe

Source: Scientific American. Mar93, Vol. 268 Issue 3, p100. 7p. 1 Color Photograph, 9 Diagrams.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *BIOLOGICAL pest control

Flower power!.

Source: Economist. 1/14/2023, Vol. 446 Issue 9329, p71-71. 1/2p.

Subject Terms: WASP behavior, LARVAE, APHIDS, FLOWERS, PLANT protection

Appeasing their hosts: a novel strategy for parasite brood.

Authors: Elia, Marta Khalil, Alix Bagnères, Anne-Geneviève et al.

Source: Animal Behaviour. Dec2018, Vol. 146, p123-134. 12p.

Subject Terms: *BROOD parasites, *WASP behavior, *BROOD parasitism, *ANIMAL life cycles, *ANIMAL ecology

Learning-induced host preference in male parasitoid wasps as a potential driver of ecological speciation.

Authors: KÔ OJI SASAKAWA YÛUSUKE KON

Source: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Nov2018, Vol. 31 Issue 11, p1750-1755. 6p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *PARASITOIDS, *GENETIC speciation, *BIOLOGICAL evolution, *PHYTOPHAGOUS insects

Associative Learning of Food Odor by Social Wasps in a Natural Ecosystem.

Authors: El-Sayed, Ashraf M. Jósvai, Júlia K. Brown, Robert L. et al.

Source: Journal of Chemical Ecology. Oct2018, Vol. 44 Issue 10, p915-921. 7p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *HABITATS, *WASPS, *BIODIVERSITY, *FOOD aroma, *PHYSIOLOGY

Mate‐searching behavior in the invasive German wasp, Vespula germanica, in Patagonia.

Authors: Martínez, Andrés S. Masciocchi, Maité Pisman, Natalia et al.

Source: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. Jul2018, Vol. 166 Issue 7, p555-564. 10p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *INTRODUCED insects, *VESPA germanica, *INTRODUCED invertebrates, *INTRODUCED species

Candidate genes for cooperation and aggression in the social wasp Polistes dominula.

Authors: Manfredini, Fabio Brown, Mark J. F. Toth, Amy L.

Source: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural & Behavioral Physiology. May2018, Vol. 204 Issue 5, p449-463. 15p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *AGGRESSION (Psychology), *SOCIAL groups, *GENE expression, *INSECT genetics, *SOCIAL interaction

A mimetic nesting association between a timid social wasp and an aggressive arboreal ant.

Authors: Corbara, Bruno Servigne, Pablo Dejean, Alain et al.

Source: Comptes Rendus Biologies. Mar2018, Vol. 341 Issue 3, p182-188. 7p.

Subject Terms: *NEST building, *WASP behavior, *ANT behavior, *ANIMAL aggression, *MIMICRY (Biology)

Geographic Terms: FRENCH Guiana

Transcriptome sequence-based phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reveals a history of rapid radiations, convergence, and evolutionary success.

Authors: Peters, Ralph S. Liu, Shanlin Zhou, Xin et al.

Source: Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. Mar2018, Vol. 120, p286-296. 11p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *PHYLOGENY, *HYMENOPTERA, *CHALCID wasps, *EUPELMIDAE

Life History of the Emerald Jewel Wasp Ampulex compressa.

Authors: Arvidson, Ryan Landa, Victor Frankenberg, Sarah et al.

Source: Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 2018, Issue 63, p1-13. 13p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *AMERICAN cockroach, *HOST-parasite relationships, *CENTRAL nervous system, *FOOD supply

The Behavior and Reproductive Physiology of a Solitary Progressive Provisioning Vespid Wasp: Evidence for a Solitary-Cycle Origin of Reproductive Castes.

Authors: Kelstrup, Hans C. Hartfelder, Klaus Lopes, Tiago Falcon et al.

Source: American Naturalist. Feb2018, Vol. 191 Issue 2, pE27-E39. 13p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph, 3 Graphs.

Subject Terms: *WASPS, *WASP behavior, *BIOLOGICAL evolution, *OOGENESIS, *OVUM, *ECDYSTEROIDS, *REPRODUCTION

Systematics, Biology, and Evolution of Microgastrine Parasitoid Wasps.

Authors: Whitfield, James B. Austin, Andrew D. Fernandez-Triana, Jose L.

Source: Annual Review of Entomology. 2018, Vol. 63, p389-406. 17p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *INSECT pest control

Male parasitic wasps sense mates in a host.

Authors: Sawal, Ibrahim (AUTHOR)

Source: New Scientist. 5/1/2021, Vol. 250 Issue 3332, p13-13. 1p.

Subject Terms: *NASONIA vitripennis, *WASP behavior, *SEXUAL behavior in insects

Zombie Spiders.

Authors: Learn, Joshua Rapp (AUTHOR)

Source: Scientific American. Mar2019, Vol. 320 Issue 3, p12-13. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *PARASITIC wasps, *ARACHNIDA

Memory and the scheduling of parental care in an insect population in the wild

Authors: Jeremy Field Charlie Savill William Foster

Subject Terms: Animal behaviour, wasp behavior, Episodic memory performance

Relation: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_b_Memory_and_the_scheduling_of_parental_care_in_an_insect_population_in_the_wild_b_/27798540

Availability: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27798540.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_b_Memory_and_the_scheduling_of_parental_care_in_an_insect_population_in_the_wild_b_/27798540

Take-off mechanisms in parasitoid wasps.

Authors: Burrows, Malcolm Dorosenko, Marina

Source: Journal of Experimental Biology. 10/15/2017, p3812-3825. 14p.

Subject Terms: *WASP behavior, *INSECT flight, *LEPTOPILINA boulardi, *ESCAPE behavior in animals, *INSECT kinematics