Highlights•Invasive social wasps are ecologically damaging and increasingly recognized for
predation of bees.•Topics of research studies appear to parallel stage of …

Highlights•Complementary sex determination leads to inbreeding costs in social
Hymenoptera.•Traits preserving sex locus diversity after founder events increase invasive …

Gene drives offer a potentially revolutionary method for pest control over large spatial
extents. These genetic modifications spread deleterious variants through a population and …

Monitoring insect genetic diversity and population structure has never been more important
to manage the biodiversity crisis. Citizen science has become an increasingly popular tool to …

Aim To compare genetic diversity and structure between Acacia dealbata populations
sampled across the species' native range in Australia and from its non‐native ranges in …

Invasive species cause severe ecological and economic impacts in their introduced ranges.
Vespula wasps, native to Eurasia, are a major threat to New Zealand native ecosystems …

Highly social species are successful because they cooperate in obligately integrated
societies. We examined temporal genetic variation in the eusocial wasp Vespula …

Many social species show variation in their social structure in response to different
environmental conditions. For example, colonies of the yellowjacket wasp Vespula …

Premise of the Study Knowledge about the introduction history (source (s), number and size
of introduction events) of an invasive species is a crucial prerequisite to understand invasion …

Invasive bee species may have a widely detrimental impact on their novel host ecosystem.
Introduced bees can rapidly disrupt native plant-pollinator mutualisms through competition …