Tajimi Senior High School

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Environment

Evaluation of the Productivity of Social Wasp Colonies (Vespinae) and an Introduction to the Traditional Japanese Vespula Wasp Hunting Technique

Tatsuya Saga^1,2

¹Tajimi Senior High School, ²Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Gifu University

This methodological paper evaluates the productivity of a social wasp colony by examining the number of meconia per 100 cells of comb, to estimate the total number of adults the wasps produced. The associated video describes how to search for Vespula wasp nests, a method developed by amateur wasp chasers.