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... Sadler's Wells Multiple Classified Advertising Items Jazz Yellowjackets Ronnie Scott's Today's TV Prime-time ...
2007 - Gale Group | TDA
Tamara Babcock, John H. Borden, Regine Gries, Cassandra Carroll, Margo M. Moore, Gerhard Gries,
... Saccharomycetaceae) is attractive to its Vespula (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) yellowjacket hosts when grown on media supplemented with grape ... to form a shelf-stable bait for trapping yellowjackets. Using molecular techniques, we first confirmed that Concerto ... to those produced by L. thermotolerans isolated from yellowjackets, 2) Concerto yeast enhances attraction of yellowjackets to fruit powder, 3) a Concerto yeast/fruit powder bait interacts synergistically with a yellowjacket semiochemical lure, and 4) a synthetic analog blend ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2018 - Oxford University Press | Environmental Entomology
John F. MacDonald, Roger D. Akre, R. E. Keyel,
Yellowjackets are the familiar social wasps which typically build large paper nests consisting of multiple combs enclosed ... see Greene and Caron 1980). Workers of all yellowjacket species aggressively defend their colony if it is ... number of serious reactions and deaths resulting from yellowjacket stings is high enough to have stimulated an ... researchers into the problems of human hypersensitivity to yellowjacket venom and venom desensitization methodology. Akre et al. (1980) reviewed the medical importance of yellowjackets, as well as the economic impact of yellowjackets ...
Tópico(s): Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
1980 - Oxford University Press | Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America
John F. MacDonald, Robert W. Matthews, Robert S. Jacobson,
Colonies of a recently described yellowjacket species, Vespula flavopilosa Jacobson, typically possess a shorter seasonal cycle and are significantly smaller than concurrently col lected colonies of the broadly sympatric eastern yellowjacket, V. maculifrons (Buysson). Typical V. flavopilosa colonies were ... be a host for V. squamosa (Drury). The yellowjackets of North America can be divided into two ... 1978). Study Sites and Methods Colonies of southeastern yellowjacket species located by systematic search and reported by ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1980 - Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Federico López‐Osorio, Kurt M. Pickett, James M. Carpenter, Bryan A. Ballif, Ingi Agnarsson,
... wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula, or yellowjackets, have developed advanced social traits in a relatively ... application of molecular evidence to phylogenetic analysis within yellowjackets has been limited. Here, we investigate the evolutionary history of yellowjackets on the basis of mitochondrial and nuclear markers ( ... use these data to test the monophyly of yellowjackets and species groups, and resolve species-level relationships ... and Bayesian inference. Our results indicate that a yellowjacket clade is either weakly supported (parsimony) or rejected ( ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2014 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Tamara Babcock, Regine Gries, John H. Borden, L. A. Palmero, Analía Mattiacci, Maité Masciocchi, Juan C. Corley, Gerhard Gries,
The German yellowjacket, Vespula germanica F., and common yellowjacket, Vespula vulgaris L. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), are pests of significant economic, environmental, and ... wasps in areas where they are a problem. Yellowjackets are known to feed on fermenting fruit, but ... field tested these baits for their attractiveness to yellowjackets in Argentina. The addition of yeast to dried ... baits on their own were hardly attractive to yellowjackets, but the addition of yeast improved their attractiveness ... become a useful tool in the management of yellowjackets.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2017 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Insect Science
Tamara Babcock, John H. Borden, Regine Gries, Cassandra Carroll, Jean Pierre Lafontaine, Margo M. Moore, Gerhard Gries,
... from the digestive tract of four North American yellowjacket species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), and attraction of yellowjackets to brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (all Saccharomycetaceae), ... L. thermotolerans are attractive to three species of yellowjacket, but only when grown on grape juice‐infused ... synthetic semiochemical blend. This synthetic blend attracted western yellowjackets, Vespula pensylvanica (Saussure), but no other yellowjacket species. Acetic acid or ethanol added to the ... yeast symbionts isolated from the digestive tract of yellowjackets are attractive to their hosts. Further research is ...
Tópico(s): Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
2019 - Wiley | Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Donald A. Reierson, Robert E. Wagner,
... used to collect and preserve various species of yellowjackets attracted to synthetic chemical lure. The trap was ... to monitor seasonal differences in the activity of yellowjackets in 4 southern and central California localities. Responsive sympatric yellowjacket species were readily detected, even when some species represented less than 1% of the yellowjackets present. Although more than 0.5 million Vespula ... was no apparent reduction in the intensity of yellowjacket scavenging activity in the trapped areas during the ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1975 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
B. L. Reid, John F. MacDonald,
Attraction of German yellowjackets, Vespula germanica (F.), to Nebraska Brands Feline Food (NBFF) baits was unaffected by all meat-grinding methods investigated. However, ... meat paste, NBFF baits were not collected by yellowjackets. Boiled ham, a very lean meat, was far more acceptable to yellowjackets than was NBFF. Addition of insecticide to either NBFF or ham did not reduce yellowjacket attraction to or collection of meat baits. High ... ham baits suggests that they be evaluated for yellowjacket abatement.
Tópico(s): Insect Utilization and Effects
1986 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
John F. McDonald, Roger D. Akre, Robert W. Matthews,
... habitats have greatly increased man's contact with yellowjacket wasps. Thus far, the problem of stinging Hymenoptera ... Grant (1963) first discussed needs and potential for yellowjacket control. Please refer to Fluno's paper for a detailed account of the effects of yellowjackets on man. Here we offer an evaluation of existing yellowjacket abatement strategies discussed in view of recent advances ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1976 - Oxford University Press | Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America
John F. MacDonald, R D Akre, W. B. Hill,
... Three associates were common to colonies of both yellowjacket species, but did not appear to influence colony ... colony productivity. Subterranean nests, and nest cavities of yellowjackets, with a refuse pile below, provide a suitable ... decline of mature colonies. Materials and Methods All yellowjacket colonies studied were numbered chronologically as located beginning ... not berlesed since CS2 used to kill adult yellowjackets also killed the associates. Results and Discussion Cryptophagus ... Infestations of C. pilosus in nests of both yellowjacket species occurred late in the seasonal cycle, usually ...
Tópico(s): Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
1975 - Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Te Piao King, Alejandro Alagón, J C Kuan, Anna Sobotka, Lawrence M. Lichtenstein,
The major proteins of yellowjacket venoms have been isolated and characterized immunochemically. They consist of hyaluronidase, phospholipase, and antigen 5. Venoms from three species of yellowjacket were studied, Vespula yermanirca, V. muculifrons, and V. ... kallikrein-like peptidase was found present in the yellowjacket venom. Phospholipases from these three species were immunochemically ... their antigen 5s. Sera from individuals sensitive to yellowjacket venom contained IgE and IgG specific for antigen ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1983 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Immunology
... initiated when daily catch of foragers reaches 50 yellowjackets per trap. Intensive baiting in an infested area ... of 0.2/ha was effective in controlling yellowjackets. Low dispenser density (e.g., one dispenser per ... only when the baiting program lasted until October. Yellowjackets preferred tuna over meat or liver in a ... preference test, translucent (white) wet traps captured more yellowjackets than other colors. However, yellowjackets took similar amounts of bait from bait dispensers ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1988 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
Jeffrey R. Aldrich, Qinghe Zhang, Aijun Zhang,
... Vespula maculifrons (Buysson), and German, V. germanica (F.), yellowjackets. (E)-2-Hexenal diethyl acetal degrades to release ( ... attractant form) and ethanol, which may help kill yellowjackets caught in the water inside the traps used ... with another blend previously reported as attractive to yellowjackets (acetic acid/isobutanol) synergistically attracted the Eastern yellowjacket. It is hypothesized that the synergistic attraction is ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2004 - Georgia Entomological Society | Journal of Entomological Science
Dong‐Hwan Choe, Kathleen Campbell, Mark S. Hoddle, John Kabashima, Monica Dimson, Michael Κ. Rust,
... is an effective method to manage Vespula spp. yellowjacket (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) populations without having to locate and ... polyacrylamide hydrogel as an alternative bait material for yellowjacket baiting. The experimental bait (hereafter referred to as ' ... at two different field sites with the western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica (Saussare), as the target species. The ... material for delivering small amounts of insecticides to yellowjacket populations in a highly targeted manner.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2018 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
R. H. Grothaus, Harry G. Davis, William M. Rogoff, J. A. Fluno, J. M. Hirst,
The problem of yellowjacket invasion into sites of human activity has become important over the past few years. Interest in outdoor activities has ... into previously undeveloped areas. Natural foraging areas for yellowjackets have been reduced by housing developments, parks, golf ... modified areas with their human presence have provided yellowjackets with an alternate source of food. These insects ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1973 - Oxford University Press | Environmental Entomology
James M. Carpenter, Estelle P. Perera,
... analysis of 25 species of Dolichovespula and Vespula (yellowjackets) is used to investigate the evolution of social parasitism in these genera. Three species of yellowjackets are social parasites, or inquilines; that is, lacking ... to determine if Emery's Rule applies to yellowjackets, as is thought to be the case for ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2006 - American Museum of Natural History | American Museum Novitates
Joseph R. Coelho, J. Hoagland,
... We examined foraging behaviour of three species of yellowjackets, Vespula germanica, V. squamosa, and V. maculifons, on ... honey-bees (Apis mellifera). 2. Large numbers of yellowjackets were captured from their nests and their lift capacities predicted based on flight muscle mass. 3. Yellowjackets foraging on honey-bees were collected and the ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1995 - Wiley | Functional Ecology
Peter J. Landolt, Robert R. Heath, Hal C. Reed, Kenneth C. Manning,
Eastern yellowjacket, Vespula maculifrons (Buysson), workers exhibited alarm responses to a target sphere treated with an extract of conspecific ... methylbutylacetamide, a known alarm pheromone of the southern yellowjacket, Vespula squamosa (Drury), was found in the extract of the eastern yellowjacket venom sac and also elicited alarm in worker ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
1995 - Florida Entomological Society | Florida Entomologist
Federico López‐Osorio, Kurt M. Pickett, James M. Carpenter, Bryan A. Ballif, Ingi Agnarsson,
... phylogenetic relationships among genera of the subfamily Vespinae (yellowjackets and hornets) remain unclear. Yellowjackets and hornets constitute one of the only two ... to Vespula, therefore challenging the prevailing hypothesis of yellowjacket (Vespula+Dolichovespula) monophyly. This suggests that traits such ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2016 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Richard Toft, Jason Malham, Jacqueline R. Beggs,
... as a biological control agent for the introduced yellowjackets Vespula vulgaris (L.) and V. germanica (F.). The ... key variables for predicting the ultimate suppression in yellowjacket abundance. Overwintering cocoons were buried in subterranean cavities ... parasitoid suggests that the maximum likely reduction of yellowjacket density may be greater than originally predicted but ... usefully predict the ultimate level of suppression of yellowjacket density.
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
1999 - Oxford University Press | Environmental Entomology
Nathan Derstine, Bonnie J Ohler, Sebastian Ibarra Jimenez, Peter J. Landolt, Gerhard Gries,
... social wasps ( V espidae). Working with the aerial yellowjacket, D olichovespula arenaria ( F abricius), baldfaced hornet, D olichovespula maculata (L.), western yellowjacket, V espula pensylvanica ( S aussure), southern yellowjacket, V espula squamosa ( D rury), and V espula ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
2017 - Wiley | Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Robert G. Hollingsworth, Gary A. Chastagner, Neil J. Reimer, Darcy Oishi, Peter J. Landolt, Robert E. Paull,
... Pacific Northwest. To reduce the risk of importing yellowjacket (Vespula spp.) queens and other insects, an inspection ... total were recovered from Christmas trees. Live western yellowjacket [Vespula pensylvanica (Saussure)] queens were intercepted both from ... Franco] trees that were naturally infested with western yellowjacket queens. We investigated the use of preharvest sprays ... a complement to shaking procedures used to control yellowjackets and other insects. Western yellowjacket queens and honey bees (surrogates for wasp pests) ...
Tópico(s): Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
2009 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
John F. MacDonald, Roger D. Akre, W. B. Hill,
... atropilosa. Use of artificial attractant traps for controlling yellowjackets is discussed in relation to species composition. The ... to the seasonal buildup and decline of worker yellowjacket populations.
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
1973 - Oxford University Press | Environmental Entomology
Karl V. Evans, Robert E. Zartman,
... that deformation and regional metamorphism of the host Yellowjacket Formation occurred prior to 1370 Ma, rather than ... the geochronology (1) removes the necessity that the Yellowjacket Formation and overlying Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks of central ... correlation of the east-central Idaho metasedimentary sequence (Yellowjacket through Lawson Creek Formations) with the Belt Supergroup; ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
1990 - Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America Bulletin
Sergio A. Estay, Maurício Lima,
Abstract The population dynamics of the yellowjacket wasp ( Vespula germanica Fabricus) in central Chile were analyzed for the first time. Using a simple Ricker logistic model and adding the ... of ENSO and SAM. According to this model, yellowjacket nest density was favored by warm and dry ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2009 - Wiley | Population Ecology
M R McDonough, Randall R. Parrish,
... the Late Proterozoic Windermere Supergroup were deposited.The Yellowjacket and Bulldog gneisses, on the east side of ... side of the trench but separated from the Yellowjacket gneiss by a major thrust fault, includes leucocratic ... 2.6. Nd model ages for the Malton, Yellowjacket, and Bulldog samples range from 2.45 to ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1991 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Peter J. Landolt, Hal C. Reed, Daniel J. Ellis,
Numbers of workers of Vespula pensylvanica (Saussure) (western yellowjacket) and V. atropilosa (Sladen) trapped with heptyl butyrate ... heptyl butyrate per hour. Vespula germanica (F.) (German yellowjacket) workers were also captured in significant numbers, and ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2003 - Florida Entomological Society | Florida Entomologist
Erin E. Wilson Rankin, David A. Holway,
... Hawaii by a social continental invader, the western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica). Experimental removal of V. pensylvanica colonies ... Endemic Hylaeus bees directly suffer through predation by yellowjackets, and perhaps as a consequence, avoid floral resources ... avoid V. pensylvanica but are negatively affected by yellowjackets not through predation, but through exploitative competition for ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2010 - Wiley | Ecology
Brian M. Barnes, Jamie L. Barger, Jessica Seares, Pamela C. Tacquard, Gerald L. Zuercher,
... thermal conditions, and freeze resistance by supercooling for yellowjacket queens, Vespula vulgaris, and adult green stinkbugs, Elasmostethus ... litter in open forest understory during mid-September. Yellowjackets were found hanging by their mandibles underneath leaves, ...
Tópico(s): Fossil Insects in Amber
1996 - University of Chicago Press | Physiological Zoology