from the much-maligned yellowjacket and hornets to a range of tropical paper wasps, with names that depict a devilish nature – such as Polistes satan. Twenty years later, I am still justifying ...

Queens of the paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus, form cooperative nests after fighting to establish a dominance hierarchy. When big-brained vertebrates like primates fight to establish dominance ...

The research team focused on the expression of behavior-related genes in Polistes metricus paper wasps, a species for which little genetic data was available when the study was begun. Like honey ...

A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by a group of Brazilian researchers concludes that the nearer the habitat ...

Other wasp societies are simpler. Take the Polistes paper wasps that live along the banks of the Panama Canal, where their nests hang like the soles of old shoes from trees, bridges and houses.

This wasp belongs to the genus Polistes, which is perhaps the largest genus within the family Vespidae. The wasps usually collect fibres from plants and wood and mix them with their saliva to ...