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Prof Seirian Sumner
@WaspWoman
Behavioural ecologist @UCL @bigwaspsurvey Book: ENDLESS FORMS. https://t.co/Tcnn7mfZu5; @WaspWoman@universeodon.com @Waspwoman.bsky.social
Sep 8, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#Japanese #wasp farmer Takahashi, from Gifu province, showed us how he lures, marks and tracks Vespula shidae wasps back to their nests.

How? Why? A 🧵

Thank you @tatauya7696 for sharing with us your friends & the wonderful relationship Japan has with wasps!

@UCLCBER @ucl #WaspFarming #Japan
Why?
Takahashi relocates nests to his wasp farm, raises them, supplementing food everyday, until nests are peak size in November.
Biggest nest competes at the Gifu Wasp Festival!
Larvae/pupae are harvested for food, sold to local shops. Yum! #Entomophagy
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Feb 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
New paper @natcomms led by @Wyatt1Chris
In rhyme:

We plucked the brains from owt their heads

And sequenced what’s inside.

Nine types of wasps (who many dread)

Hold social secrets (we’ve been misled)

On the building blocks of life.
1/n
 @NERCscience
nature.com/articles/s4146… We travelled far and sampled wide,

For wasps of every kind.

From hopeful queens, and sterile proles,

In simple groups or complex roles

Such socialites, we find!

2/n
@NERCscience @UCLLifeSciences @natcomms