Flight Distance and Return Capacity of Polistes lanio lanio (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Workers

Silva-Filho, Reinildes; Brügger, Bruno Pandeló; Corrêa, Carlos Augusto; Souza, Laila Salomé Araújo de; Cassino, Paulo César Rodrigues; Zanúncio, José Cola; Silva, Paulo Roberto Ramalho; Soares, Marcus Alvarenga; Zanuncio, Antônio José Vinha

doi:10.1653/024.103.0406

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“…However, the use of only attractive traps, may have influenced the result, since in environments with less food availability (Eucalyptus) (De Souza et al, 2011) it may have captured more social wasps in relation to an environment rich in food (Atlantic forest) (Brügger et al,2019b). In addition, the higher light intensity in Eucalyptus monoculture than in the Atlantic Forest may have contributed to the number of wasp individuals, as these insects use marked clues or points for short or long-distance orientation in relation to their nests (Steinmetz & Schmolz, 2004;Warrant et al, 2006;Mandal, 2018;Silva-Filho et al, 2020). Daytime insects can make navigation errors in low sunlight conditions (Spiewok & Schmolz, 2005).…”

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Social Wasps in Exotic Forest Planting and Atlantic Rainforest in the Neotropical Region

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Social wasps play an important role in communities, whether in natural or agricultural ecosystems, performing pollination and/or predation on other organisms, especially caterpillars, which reveals their potential for biological control. We register species of predatory wasps found in a eucalypt reforested area compared with a native rainforest. Five species of social wasps were found: Agelaia myrmecophila (Ducke), Mischocyttarus punctatus (Ducke), Polistes carnifex (Fabricius), Polybia liliacea (Fabricius), and Polybia striata (Fabricius), with higher numbers in the eucalypt monoculture than in the Atlantic rainforest, suggesting no negative impact of the monoculture on the population of that natural enemies.

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“…Monitoring the foraging activities of Polistes species is challenging due to the availability of numerous workers inside each nest and their flight ability of more than 150 m [29][30][31] . Recently, molecular approaches such as DNA barcoding and metabarcoding have been used to identify the prey diversity of Polistes species in different landscapes 3,4,32 .…”

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Uncovering floral composition of paper wasp nests (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistes) through DNA metabarcoding

Mohamadzade Namin,

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2024

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As the social organism, Polistes wasps build a communal nest using woody fibers with saliva for sustaining brood and adult population throughout the season. Limited information exists regarding the identification specific plant materials employed in wasp nest building. Thus, we firstly tested if the DNA metabarcoding approach utilizing rbcL and trnL molecular markers could identify the plant species quantitatively and qualitatively inform the mixed-origin woody samples. A threshold of 0.01 proportion of reads was applied for rbcL and trnL molecular markers, while this threshold for median proportion was 0.0025. In assessing taxa richness, the median proportion demonstrated superior performance, exhibiting higher taxa detection power, however, rbcL marker outperformed in quantitative analysis. Subsequently, we applied DNA metabarcoding to identify the plant materials from the nests of two Polistes species, P. mandarinus and P. rothneyi. The results showed that higher preference of Quercus and Robinia as the major nest building materials regardless of the surrounding plant communities, by two wasp species. Material diversity was higher for P. rothneyi than P. mandarinus, which may explain the abundance of this species possibly with heightened adaptive capacities in their nesting behavior. This study demonstrated that DNA metabarcoding could identify the complex nest-building plant materials of paper wasps and provide insights into their ecological interactions in the natural ecosystem.

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“…Social wasps forage water, plant fibbers, and protein. These insects approach, touch with the antennae, capture, kill and cut their prey into pieces, consuming or transporting them to their colonies (Silva-Filho et al, 2020).…”

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Polistes satan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) predating Dione juno juno (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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Flight Distance and Return Capacity of Polistes lanio lanio (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Workers

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Social Wasps in Exotic Forest Planting and Atlantic Rainforest in the Neotropical Region

Social Wasps in Exotic Forest Planting and Atlantic Rainforest in the Neotropical Region

Uncovering floral composition of paper wasp nests (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistes) through DNA metabarcoding

Polistes satan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) predating Dione juno juno (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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