Use of Fruit Juice as a Method for the Collection of Social Wasps

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Diversidade de vespas sociais (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) em um plantio de eucalipto no município de Barreiras, Bahia

“…Tal fato é possível ser justificado, devido à grande disponibilidade de alimentos na área de Cerrado, já que os meses de novembro e dezembro correspondem ao período de chuva nessa região (BATISTELLA et al, 2002) (Figura 2) e, consequentemente, a floração nesse bioma. Observa-se, portanto, que os dados da presente pesquisa divergem de Brugger et al (2019b), levando em consideração que o estudo do autor em questão analisou menor abundância nos meses de julho e agosto.…”

“…No estado da Bahia, ocorre apenas uma espécie do gênero Clypearia (Clypearia angustior) (BARBOSA et al, 2016a). Brugger et al (2019b) coletaram em um fragmento de Floresta Atlântica, em área urbana, apenas um exemplar de Clypearia e Felippotti et al (2010), afirmam que as espécies desse gênero são raras, e pouco se sabe sobre a sua biologia.…”

Social Wasps in Exotic Forest Planting and Atlantic Rainforest in the Neotropical Region

“…Eucalyptus monoculture has defoliating caterpillars (Zanuncio et al, 2018), favoring the wasps due to pest insect outbreaks (Elisei et al, 2010). However, the use of only attractive traps, may have influenced the result, since in environments with less food availability (Eucalyptus) (De Souza et al, 2011) it may have captured more social wasps in relation to an environment rich in food (Atlantic forest) (Brügger et al,2019b). In addition, the higher light intensity in Eucalyptus monoculture than in the Atlantic Forest may have contributed to the number of wasp individuals, as these insects use marked clues or points for short or long-distance orientation in relation to their nests (Steinmetz & Schmolz, 2004;Warrant et al, 2006;Mandal, 2018;Silva-Filho et al, 2020).…”

“…The Brazilian fauna is composed of 22 genera of 304 species of registered social wasps, of which 104 occur exclusively in Brazilian territory (Silveira et al, 2016). Three tribes occur in Brazil: Mischocyttarini (Mischocyttarus), known, so new records may contribute to the understanding of species diversity and richness in an area (De Souza et al, 2017;Brügger et al, 2019b;Somavilla et al, 2019).…”

High Number of Species of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) Attests the Great Biodiversity of Western Amazon: a Survey from Rondônia, Brazil.

“…The Neotropical region has a rich fauna of social insects, as well as a great diversity of social wasps (Vespidae, Social wasps perform important and priceless ecosystemic services. As predators of other insects, they are important in the maintenance of food chains and in biological control, since they feed on larvae that are crop pests such as tomato, coffee, corn, eucalyptus, citrus fruits and vegetables (Carpenter & Marques, 2001;Souza et al, 2008Souza et al, , 2010aBrügger et al, 2019;Prezoto et al, 2019). These wasps also act as pollinators (Hunt et al, 1991;Hermes & Köler, 2006;Santos et al, 2006;Nadia et al, 2007) and are well known for symbiosis with ants (Espelie & Herman, 1988), honey insects (Letourneau & Choe, 1987) and birds (Joyce, 1993).…”