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The comparative biology of two sympatric paper wasps in Michigan, the native Polistes fuscatus and the invasive Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) | Semantic Scholar

@article{Gamboa2002TheCB,
  title={The comparative biology of two sympatric paper wasps in Michigan, the native Polistes fuscatus and the invasive Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)},
  author={George J. Gamboa and Melissa A. Noble and Michael C. Thom and J. L. Togal and Ramakrishnan Srinivasan and B. D. Murphy},
  journal={Insectes Sociaux},
  year={2002},
  volume={51},
  pages={153-157},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25888893}
}

The biology of the invasive Polistes dominulus and the native P. fuscatus was compared at a field site in Rochester, Michigan over a two-year period and found that P. dominulus is likely replacing P.fuscatus in many areas of southeastern Michigan via indirect or exploitative competition.

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