The new study examined variations in fragments of four genes across 30 species of vespid wasps.
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Hunt observed that many behavioral characteristics of the vespid wasps contradicted this model of the vespid family tree.
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Cameron's team included University of Missouri biology professor James H. Hunt, an expert on the evolution of social behavior in the vespid wasps.
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Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey developed his investigative skills studying vespid insects, thus giving fuller meaning to the term stirring up a hornet's nest.
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Experts on vespid wasp behavior have long noted the significant behavioral differences between the Stenogastrinae subfamily and the group that includes Polistinae and Vespinae.
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Mostly social nest-building wasps
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5,000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. ...
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(VESPIDS) A group of stinging insects that includes the yellow jacket, yellow hornet, white-faced hornet and wasp.