The Northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus) is capable of distinguishing the facial features of individuals. This comes in handy in their nests, where there a complex hierarchy with multiple ...

Individual Polistes fuscatus wasps can recognize their very different faces. Scientists have long wondered how prehistoric humans quickly unstuck themselves from the Stone Age and became as ...

At first glance, we might think that all wasps look the same. But if you look closer at the face of a paper wasp Polistes fuscatus, you’ll see a variety of distinctive markings. Each face has ...

Scientists have long known that the wasp Polistes fuscatus can distinguish individuals in its colony by recognizing facial markings. In the new study, researchers found that the wasps learn to ...

You've got some company in the animal kingdom—the wasp. Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy ...

They studied the northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus), which can be found across eastern North America. Researchers singled out specific northern paper wasps to observe other northern paper ...

Sheehan and Tibbetts 3 tested the learning abilities of two closely related wasp species, Polistes fuscatus and P. metricus, in a T-shaped maze.When an individual wasp entered the maze, it had two ...

As a young graduate student in 2001, one of us (Tibbetts) was working on a project focused on detailing the social lives of Polistes fuscatus paper wasps. The project involved painting colored ...

Despite having a brain less than a millionth the size of a human's, queen paper wasps of the Polistes fuscatus species can recognize one another's faces. Michael Sheehan and Elizabeth Tibbetts ...

2011 issue of the journal Science reveals the wasps learn to identify images of Polistes fuscatus faces faster and more accurately than other types of images.

In earlier research, Tibbetts showed that paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) recognize individuals of their species by variations in their facial markings and that they behave more aggressively ...

Like people, Polistes fuscatus wasps can tell apart individuals from their species. It turns out that these wasps are especially good at recognizing faces compared with other objects, Michael ...