Paper Wasps

Both the maid and the queen scientists have figured out how paper wasps maintain a hierarchy inside the nest

(ORDO NEWS) — Paper wasps, like some other social insects, have workers and a queen whose only task is to bear offspring. If the queen is removed from the nest, one of the remaining wasps will take the vacant place, but why, then, in the presence of the queen, the wasps do not “rebel” and do not try to take her place? The answer turned out to be surprisingly simple. In the family of paper wasps , most individuals are…