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Polistes

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Noun1.Polistes - a genus of VespidaePolistes - a genus of Vespidae                  
genus Polistes
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
family Vespidae, Vespidae - an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps
Polistes annularis - a variety of paper wasp
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Polistes Wasps' nest construction [20] is a good example of parallel activity: wasp workers are interchangeable; they share a same goal that is building the biggest nets as quickly as possible.
Bio-inspired mechanisms for artificial self-organised systems by Jean-Pierre, Mano; Christine, Bourjot; Gabriel, Lopardo; Pierre, Glize / Informatica
Now, Tibbetts and James Dale of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, report that in Polistes dominulus wasps, a colony's 10-or-so queens vary in facial-spot "brokenness," an index combining the number of spots and the curviness of their edges.
Paper wasps object to dishonest face spots by Milius, Susan / Science News
Because the wasps, Polistes fuscatus, maintain a pecking order, observers have long speculated that colony members can tell who's who.
Do insects know each other's faces? (Wasp Painting) by Milius, S. / Science News
 
 
 
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