Yellow jackets and paper wasps are incredibly similar wasps, and it’s difficult for the average person to tell them apart. They’re both yellow and black with thin bodies, slender wings ...

A previous study by Souza and other collaborators showed that regulation of body temperature in paper wasps is not the main determinant of body size, as predicted by Bergmann's rule.

THE communities of the paper wasp, like those of other social inseets of the family, consist of three kinds of individuals—males, females and workers. The colonies only exist for a single season ...

Wasps pose significant dangers, as even a single wasp or a large group can inflict harm or even be fatal to sensitive ...

A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by a group of Brazilian researchers concludes that the nearer the habitat ...