Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
Differences in how social insect groups perform may be, in part, chalked up to leadership
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INFLUENCERS The personalities and physical traits of some paper wasp queens (Polistes metricus) may help predict if their colonies thrive or fail.
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