Eusociality has arisen repeatedly and independently in the history of insects, often leading
to evolutionary success and ecological dominance. Eusocial wasps of the genera Vespula …

Highly social species are successful because they cooperate in obligately integrated
societies. We examined temporal genetic variation in the eusocial wasp Vespula …

Many social species show variation in their social structure in response to different
environmental conditions. For example, colonies of the yellowjacket wasp Vespula …

The phylogenetic relationships among genera of the subfamily Vespinae (yellowjackets and
hornets) remain unclear. Yellowjackets and hornets constitute one of the only two lineages …

Organisms must make important decisions on how to allocate resources to reproduction. We
investigated allocation decisions in the social wasp Vespula maculifrons to understand how …

The mating decisions made by social insect males and females profoundly affect the
structure of colonies and populations. However, few studies have used experimental …

Nutritional variation among developing larvae is a long-standing hypothesis for how a sterile
caste could evolve, with larvae deprived of nutrition becoming sterile or not leaving the nest …

Phenotypic diversity is frequently generated by differences in gene expression. In this study,
we addressed the relationship between homology in gene expression and phenotype …

The reproductive division of labor between workers and queens is one of the hallmarks of
highly social insects (ants, termites, some bees, and some wasps). Within social insect …