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The European paper wasp (Polistes dominula) is one of the most common and well-known species of social wasps in the genus Polistes.Its diet is more diverse than those of most Polistes species—many genera of insects versus mainly caterpillars in other Polistes—giving it superior survivability compared to other wasp species during a shortage of resources.
Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron. [1]
Old guinea paper wasp nest showing layers of different colors produced from different source materials. Polistes nests can be built from wood fiber which are collected from posts and plant stems. The fiber is formed into a paper-like comb with hexagonal cells. The nests are orientated downward and are held up by one filament. [14]
Polistes is a cosmopolitan genus of paper wasps and the only genus in the tribe Polistini. Vernacular names for the genus include umbrella wasps, coined by Walter Ebeling in 1975 to distinguish it from other types of paper wasp, in reference to the form of their nests, [3] and umbrella paper wasps. [4]
Polistes humilis is in the genus Polistes, which consists of 150 species that can be found in all regions except the world's coldest climates. Polistes humilis was the only species of the tribe Polistini found in New Zealand after it was accidentally introduced from Australia, [4] prior to the introduction of the Asian paper wasp, Polistes chinensis in 1979. [5]
Wasp nests are not reused from one year to the next, but in rare instances wasps have been seen to re-nest in the footprint of a removed nest or even begin building a new nest within an old nest. In the mild climate of New Zealand and Australia, a few of the colonies may survive the winter, although this is much more common with the German wasp .
Thanks largely to milder winters and a plentiful food supply, yellow jacket wasps are now building "super nests" in Alabama, according to the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.. Entomologists ...
The nests are built using wood fibres that the wasps scrap off old weathered pieces of wood. The wasps appear to prefer certain pieces and return to these repeatedly, sometimes congregating on a particular spot. [10] Nests are often built suspended from branches in the tops of low trees, [8] but are also often built in the eaves of houses, [9 ...