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Agelaia vicina is a species of wasp in the genus Agelaia. They are neotropical social wasps known to have the largest colony sizes and nest sizes among social wasps, with some colonies exceeding over one million individuals. They are predators of land arthropods, consuming both insects and spiders alike.
Social wasps are considered pests when they become excessively common, or nest close to buildings. People are most often stung in late summer and early autumn, when wasp colonies stop breeding new workers; the existing workers search for sugary foods and are more likely to come into contact with humans.
Social wasp colonies are started from scratch each spring by a queen who survives through the winter. Each colony can have up to 5,000 individual insects.
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1] Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative ...
Most ground-nesting wasps are solitary and mind their own business as they pollinate plants and prey on unwelcome garden pests, such as caterpillars. But social wasps, which live in a colony with ...
P. colobopterus, like other wasps, is a social insect. This wasp demonstrates social behaviors such as division of labor, alarm pheromones, trial pheromones, partitioning of tasks, and extended persistence of colonies. [2] The individual wasps that make up a colony are divided into reproductive castes, where queens are able to mate and freely ...
Social wasp colonies are started from scratch each spring by a queen who survives through the winter. Each colony can have up to 5,000 individual insects. Yellowjackets are among the most common ...
S. surinama wasps have barbed stingers, which is a significant characteristic for both the wasp producing the sting and the organism being stung. S. surinama are one of the highly social Hymenoptera species to employ sting autonomy (also called autotomy) as a mechanism of colony defense.