and Vespula maculifrons (the eastern yellow jacket). Having the genome sequences of yellow jacket wasps expands biologists' ...

including the North American yellowjacket (Vespula alascensis), eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons), western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica), prairie yellowjacket (Vespula atropilosa ...

A high school teacher trying to solve the mystery of why queen Vespula wasps mate with many different males thinks the practice might have evolved to stave off a catastrophic colony collapse.