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A molecular approach to study Hymenoptera diets using wasp nests

scientific article

A molecular approach to studying Hymenoptera diets using polistine wasps

A new DNA sampling method to describe the diet of social wasps and evaluate their impact on native biodiversity

A new DNA sampling method to describe the diet of social wasps and evaluate their impact on native biodiversity

A scientific note on the transmission of chalkbrood via field collected pollen

scientific article published in 2023

Are Wasps More Likely to Sting Men than Women

scientific article published in January 1993

Are nesting seabirds important determinants of invertebrate community composition on subantarctic Adams Island?

2014 article

Areas of ecological importance are exposed to risk from urban sky glow: Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand as a case study

scientific article published in 2021

Biogeography and anthropogenic impact shape the success of invasive wasps on New Zealand's offshore islands

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Can alternative sugar sources buffer pollinators from nectar shortages?

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Carbohydrate analysis of beech honeydew

article by W.D. Grant & J.R. Beggs published July 1989 in New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Challenges in Food-Web Restoration: An Assessment of the Restoration Requirements of a Honeydew-Gecko Trophic Interaction in the Auckland Region, New Zealand

article

Coexistence, habitat patterns and the assembly of ant communities in the Yasawa islands, Fiji

article

Competition-colonization dynamics of spore-feeding beetles on the long-lived bracket fungi Ganoderma in New Zealand native forest

article

Complex habitat changes along elevational gradients interact with resource requirements of insect specialist herbivores

article by Claas Damken et al published December 2012 in Ecosphere

Conceptual Risk Framework: Integrating Ecological Risk of Introduced Species with Recipient Ecosystems

Consuming Parasitized Aphids Alters the Life History and Decreases Predation Rate of Aphid Predator

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

DNA metabarcoding of prey reveals spatial, temporal and diet partitioning of an island ecosystem by four invasive wasps

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

DNA metabarcoding of prey reveals spatial, temporal, and diet partitioning of an island ecosystem by four invasive wasps

Data from Probert et al 2020. Invasion patterns of non-native ants in natural ecosystems, in warm, temperate New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 10.20417/nzjecol.44.6

Data from Probert et al 2020. Invasion patterns of non-native ants in natural ecosystems, in warm, temperate New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 10.20417/nzjecol.44.6

Declines in common, widespread native birds in a mature temperate forest

Determining the impact of scale insect honeydew, and invasive wasps and rodents, on the decomposer subsystem in a New Zealand beech forest

article

Distribution and abundance of endemic coelostomidiid scale insects (Hemiptera: Coelostomidiidae) in Auckland forests, New Zealand

journal article from 'New Zealand Journal of Ecology' published in 2009

Diverse Honeydew-Consuming Fungal Communities Associated with Scale Insects

scientific article published on July 26, 2013

Does the presence of burrowing seabirds increase local invertebrate abundance?

Dung beetles in an avian-dominated island ecosystem: feeding and trophic ecology.

scientific article published on 29 June 2014

Dynamics of common wasps in New Zealand beech forests: a model with density dependence and weather

article

Ecological effects and management of invasive alien Vespidae

article by Jacqueline R. Beggs et al published August 2011 in BioControl

Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health

scientific article published in 2023

Emerging threats in urban ecosystems: a horizon scanning exercise

scientific article published in 2015

Evaluating the impact of a biological control parasitoid on invasive Vespula wasps in a natural forest ecosystem

Exotic flies maintain pollination services as native pollinators decline with agricultural expansion

article published in 2018

Exotic species enhance response diversity to land-use change but modify functional composition.

scientific article published in August 2017

First record of Vespula vulgaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Argentina

scientific article published in 2010

Front Cover

scientific article published on 6 March 2020

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

scientific article

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

scholarly article

High Dietary Niche Overlap Between Non-native and Native Ant Species in Natural Ecosystems

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Honey bee toxicological responses do not accurately predict environmental risk of imidacloprid to a solitary ground-nesting bee species

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Impacts of introduced common wasps (Vespula vulgaris) on experimentally placed mealworms in a New Zealand beech forest

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Influence of pathogenic fungi on the life history and predation rate of mites attacking a psyllid pest

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Invasion Success and Management Strategies for Social Vespula Wasps

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Invasion patterns of non-native ants in natural ecosystems in warm, temperate New Zealand

scientific article

Invasion success of the wasp parasitoidSphecophaga vesparum vesparum(Curtis) in New Zealand

article

Invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligator weed) associated with increased fungivore dominance in Coleoptera on decomposing leaf litter

scholarly article by Imogen Bassett published in November 2010

Invasive Vespula Wasps Utilize Kairomones to Exploit Honeydew Produced by Sooty Scale Insects, Ultracoelostoma.

scientific article published on 2 October 2015

Invertebrate community composition differs between invasive herb alligator weed and native sedges

article

Invertebrate community richness in New Zealand kiwifruit orchards under organic or integrated pest management

article

Ka mua, ka muri: the inclusion of mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology

scholarly article published 2019

Kaitiakitanga, place and the urban restoration agenda

scientific article

Kua takoto te mānuka: mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology

scientific article

Lack of genetic structuring, low effective population sizes and major bottlenecks characterise common and German wasps in New Zealand

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Larval age at emergence

data set

Larval age at pupation

data set

Leadership and diversity in the New Zealand Ecological Society

scientific article published in 2019

Management and eradication options for Queensland fruit fly

article by Lloyd D. Stringer et al published July 2017 in Population Ecology

Mazes to Study the Effects of Spatial Complexity, Predation and Population Density on Mate Finding

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

New Zealand's Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) model undermines Maori research

article

No evidence for a Ganoderma spore dispersal mutualism in an obligate spore-feeding beetle Zearagytodes maculifer

scientific article published on June 16, 2011

Patterns of beetle diversity in kauri forest

Plant species dominance increases pollination complementarity and plant reproductive function

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Population development of the predatory mite Amblydromalus limonicus is modulated by habitat dispersion, diet and density of conspecifics

article

Primary symbiont of the ancient scale insect family Coelostomidiidae exhibits strict cophylogenetic patterns

scientific article published in October 2013

Protecting trees at an individual level provides insufficient safeguard for urban forests

Provisioning predatory mites with entomopathogenic fungi or pollen improves biological control of a greenhouse psyllid pest

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Re-forestation restores native dominance in an island beetle fauna

scientific article published in 2015

Relative importance of sugar resources to endemic gecko populations in an isolated island ecosystem

scientific article published in 2015

Responses

Restructuring of Lepidoptera communities by introduced Vespula wasps in a New Zealand beech forest

scientific article published on June 1999

Risks and drivers of wild bird feeding in urban areas of New Zealand

article

Science-based, stakeholder-inclusive and participatory conservation planning helps reverse the decline of threatened species

scientific article published in 2021

Seasonality of crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae) in South Island beech forest in relation to the abundance of Vespulawasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

scholarly article by R. J. Toft & J. R. Beggs published January 1995 in New Zealand Entomologist

Selecting non-target species for risk assessment of entomophagous biological control agents: Evaluation of the PRONTI decision-support tool

article

Sensory-based conservation of seabirds: a review of management strategies and animal behaviours that facilitate success

scientific article

Species-specific chemical signatures in scale insect honeydew

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Supplementary feeding restructures urban bird communities

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Support for vicariant origins of the New Zealand Onychophora

article

The diversity and origin of exotic ants arriving in New Zealand via human-mediated dispersal

article

The ecological consequences of social wasps (Vespula spp.) invading an ecosystem that has an abundant carbohydrate resource

scholarly article by Jacqueline R. Beggs published in May 2001

The efficacy of baited and live capture pitfall traps in collecting large-bodied forest carabids

article by David S. Seldon & Jacqueline R. Beggs published February 2010 in New Zealand Entomologist

The kaka Nestor meridionalis, a New Zealand parrot endangered by introduced wasps and mammals

scientific article published in 1991

The role of introduced predators and competitors in the decline of Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) populations in New Zealand

article

Tri-partite complexity: Odour from a psyllid's ant mutualist increased predation on the psyllid by a predatory mite

Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of a bacterial symbiosis in the ecologically important scale insect family Coelostomidiidae

scientific article

Urban Bird Feeders Dominated by a Few Species and Individuals

scientific article published on 02 August 2017

Variation in the quality ofVespula vulgaris(L.) queens (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) and its significance in wasp population dynamics

scientific article (publication date: 1995)

Vespula vulgaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) gynes use a sex pheromone to attract males

scholarly article by Robert L. Brown et al published 18 February 2013 in The Canadian Entomologist