The latest from the lab: papers, fieldwork, outreach, and everything in between.
- 12 Jun 2026 Ham or Jam: Wasp Picnic Survey 2026
- 1 May 2026 Billy Easeman: The Ecological Role of Parasitoid Wasps
- 29 Jan 2026 Sophie Staples. Assessing the impact of land-use on fluctuating asymmetry and body size in the common yellow jacket wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
- 29 Jan 2026 Louisa Stefani: Does increased awareness and understanding of wasps change public perceptions of their importance and utility?
- 29 Jan 2026 Hoi Lam Daisy Choi: Investigating the Evolutionary Patterns of Diets and Predatory Wasps
- 29 Jan 2026 Dylan John: Evolution of nesting and prey-use traits in vespid wasps
- 4 Jun 2025 Where Hornets Are Queens and Not Pests: A Journey Into the Land of Hills
- 23 Jan 2025 Sreya Magar: Evolution of Prey Selection and Life History Traits in Sphecidae Wasps
- 23 Jan 2025 Jéferson Pedrosa dos Santos – on his six month project with the Sumner Lab
- 24 Dec 2024 Daniel Altair Saureu Velasco: Transcriptomics of caste conflict in Argentine ants
- 23 Nov 2024 Expanding the spectrum of edible insects in Europe: the way forward
- 3 Oct 2024 Insights from a Nanopore Sequencing Visit to Newcastle University
- 23 Sep 2024 Murder hornet collection and visit to wasp farmers in Japan
- 19 Sep 2024 Tiffene Larose: Trait Analysis, Motion Tracking and Spatial Use in Polistes Wasps
- 31 Aug 2024 Euro-IUSSI Lausanne 2024
- 21 May 2024 CSHL Conference on the Biology & Genomics of Social Insects (& friends)
- 1 Apr 2024 Congratulations Dr Lewis Revely!
- 22 Nov 2023 Eco-Flow – A bioinformatics ecosystem for agri-ecology
- 14 Sep 2023 Citizen science for the win: how we used wasps collected by people in their back gardens for a genetic study
- 14 Jul 2023 Kendra Edwards: Global Social Wasp Distributions
- 12 Jul 2023 Visiting collaborator Prof. Fabio Nascimento (USP-Brazil)
- 10 Jul 2023 Wasp Day 2023
- 18 Apr 2023 Wasp Collecting in the Amazon – Brazil January 2023
- 1 Mar 2023 Lucy Weatherley: Signal Detection Theory and Prey Specialisms in Wasps
- 9 Feb 2023 Zann Teo Jiexin: Population Differentiation of Ammophila Wasps
- 9 Feb 2023 Nextflow Summit and Hackathon, Barcelona – October 2022
- 26 Jan 2023 New paper highlighted in Genome Biology and Evolution
- 6 Jan 2023 Lab visit @wespenvriend
- 10 Nov 2022 Wasps Matter
- 10 Nov 2022 David Blahout: Provisioning Strategies in Sand Wasps and Wasp Pollination Syndromes
- 24 May 2022 What roles do wasps play in nature?
- 24 May 2022 Losses in behavioural plasticity and the evolution of altruism
- 24 May 2022 How do identical genomes produce phenotypic and behavioural diversity?
- 31 Oct 2020 Sampling European Hornets
- 24 Jan 2019 In2Science A-level student blog
- 21 Oct 2015 New paper published: first social wasp genome and more…!
- 21 Oct 2015 Lessons From the Jungle
- 21 Oct 2015 Autumn 2015: Welcome to four new group members!
- 25 Sep 2015 “Why fly half way across the world to Trinidad when there are plenty of wasps drowning in my lemonade in Peckham?”
- 26 May 2015 What can Swarm-Founding Wasps tell us about the Evolution of Sociality?
- 27 Apr 2015 Lonely Potter
- 8 Apr 2015 From Brussels Sprouts to Brachiosaurs – our science communication isn’t always about wasps!
- 27 Feb 2015 Effects of Agrochemicals on Ants – Just the Tip of the Ant Mound?
- 9 Jan 2015 The Lord of the Bees & The Microcolony Revolution
- 7 Nov 2014 Seirian’s Seminar Frenzy
- 7 Nov 2014 November 20th deadline! Position available: Work with us on Soapbox Science
- 6 Oct 2014 Opening the Life Sciences building
- 5 Oct 2014 ‘What’s the point of wasps?’
- 30 Sep 2014 IUSSI Conference Cairns 2014
- 22 Sep 2014 New recruits join the lab
- 27 Aug 2014 Research Published! Colony size predicts division of labour in attine ants
- 12 Aug 2014 Peter Graystock publishes work showing the impact managed bees can have on wild bumblebees
- 14 Jul 2014 Research Published! A Novel Method of Assessing Dominance Hierarchies Shows Nuance, Linearity and Stability in the Dinosaur Ant Dinoponera quadriceps
- 30 Jun 2014 Research Published! Fine‐scale spatial genetic structure of common and declining bumble bees across an agricultural landscape
- 19 Jun 2014 Research Published! Extensive Local Gene Duplication and Functional Divergence among Paralogs in Atlantic Salmon