Responses of four hornet species to levels of urban greenness in Nagoya city, Japan: Implications for ecosystem disservices of urban green spaces

MM Azmy, T Hosaka, S Numata - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2016 - Elsevier
Although there is a common trend towards increasing green space in modern cities, urban
green spaces provide not only ecosystem services but also disservices for urban dwellers …

Diversity of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in an agricultural environment in Bambuí, Minas Gerais, Brazil

G de Castro Jacques, MM Souza, HJ Coelho… - …, 2015 - periodicos.uefs.br
Studies on the diversity of social wasps in agricultural environments represent an important
step to identifying the ideal species to be used in biological pest control programs. There is a …

Occurrence and nesting behavior of social wasps in an anthropized environment

RC da Silva, AP da Silva, DS Assis, FS Nascimento - Sociobiology, 2019 - ojs3.uefs.br
Some effort had been made concerning the social biodiversity of wasps in Brazil; however,
few approaches have been made relating to how this taxa have adapted their nesting …

Long-and short-term changes in social wasp community structure in an urban area

MFFS Detoni, BC Barbosa, TT Maciel… - …, 2018 - periodicos.uefs.br
The success of social wasps in anthropic environments is related to their ability to nest both
in vegetation and human constructions, and, as humans modify their own environments …

Species composition, relative abundance and distribution of social wasps fauna on different ecosystems

MM Souza, AG Brunismann, MA Clemente - Sociobiology, 2017 - repositorio.unesp.br
The state of Minas Gerais has high biodiversity, characterized by strong ecosystem
heterogeneity that favors high richness of social wasps. There are currently 109 species …

Prey diversity of Polistes rothneyi koreanus in different landscapes using DNA barcoding

MG Jeon, TG Kim, JC Jung… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For the present study, we investigated the prey of Polistes rothneyi koreanus, which is the
most common social wasp in South Korea, and the relationship between prey diversity and …

Integrated Analyses of Cuticular Hydrocarbons, Chromosome and mtDNA in the Neotropical Social Wasp Mischocyttarus consimilis Zikán (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

DAS Cunha, RST Menezes, MA Costa, SM Lima… - Neotropical …, 2017 - Springer
In the present work, we explored multiple data from different biological levels such as
cuticular hydrocarbons, chromosomal features, and mtDNA sequences in the Neotropical …

Evaluating the efficiency of different sampling methods to survey social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in an anthropized environment

GC Jacques, E Pires, MG Hermes, LDB Faria… - …, 2018 - periodicos.uefs.br
Social wasps play important ecological roles, such as the natural biological control of other
arthropods as well as major components of the flower-visiting insect guild. Despite many …

Effect of human disturbance on colony productivity of the social wasp Polistes versicolor Olivier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

RF Torres, V de Oliveira Torres, YR Súarez… - Sociobiology, 2014 - ojs3.uefs.br
Currently, the main impacts on biodiversity are generated by human activities in natural
environments. Monitoring the number of species of social wasps nesting attached to …

[PDF][PDF] Novas contribuições para o conhecimento de vespas sociais (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) para Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil

F Virgínio, TT Maciel, BC Barbosa - Entomotropica, 2016 - researchgate.net
O objetivo do presente trabalho é contribuir com conhecimento das espécies de vespas
sociais do Rio Grande do Norte, incluindo oito novos registros para o estado. Foram …