When the queen wasp of the colony dies, ... "A conflict-free process of choosing a successor within a few minutes of losing the existing leader is not very common, ... Looking for the queen.

Common wasps, like bees, ... As the colony grows the queen loses the ability to fly and dedicates herself to producing eggs, up to 200 per day.

A common wasp with the colony's brood comb in Germany. Thomas Hinsche/imageBROKER/Corbis Cooperative insects like bees and wasps all pitch in for the good of the hive, raising the queen’s ...

Wasp queens that share their nests can recognize faces, researchers discover. December 5, 2011. By Wendy Zukerman. The face is familiar. So is the stinger.

And though it might be gruesome, it's also balanced: X. vesparum is widespread, but European paper wasps are common and thriving. "It's better to tolerate than to fight the parasite," he said.

Wasps with many queens will remember your face as they sting you A species of wasp with multiple queens has the ability to recognize other … Kate Shaw Yoshida – Dec 1, 2011 4:39 pm | 40 ...

Ruud Kleinpaste discusses the common wasps in New Zealand and their wintering processes. ... Overwintering Vespula Queens . In spring, when temperatures become a little more agreeable, ...

INFLUENCERS The personalities and physical traits of some paper wasp queens (Polistes metricus) may help predict if their colonies thrive or fail.. Beatriz Moisset/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

Gavin adds, ‘The red wasp, Vespula rufa, and the tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestris, are also common. The Saxon wasp, Dolichovespula saxonica, only arrived in Britain in the 1980s and it’s mainly ...

The are hundreds of millions of German wasps in the UK, compared to around 240bn common wasps. Queens will treat their workers with a 'sugary liquid' called chitin, made from glucose, in return ...