Behavioral differences between two recently sympatric paper wasps, the native Polistes fuscatus and the invasive Polistes dominulus

Great Lakes Entomologist

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 99-104

  Silagi, Stephanie A ^a   Gamboa, George J ^a   Klein, Carrie R ^a   Noble, Melissa A ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 12444292248     PISSN: 00900222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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