The cost of flight: a role in the Polistes dominulus invasion.
Weiner, S. A.; Noble, K.; Upton, C. T.; Flynn, G.; Woods, W. A.; Starks, P. T.; Springer, Basel, Switzerland, Insectes Sociaux, 2012, 59, 1, pp 81-86, 19 ref. Polistes dominulus is a primitively eusocial paper wasp from Mediterranean Europe that is invasive to North America. In Eastern North America, P. dominulus is in competition with P. fuscatus. One reason for the success of P. dominulus is that their coloni...
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