Tajimi Senior High School 1 article published in JoVE Environment Evaluation of the Productivity of Social Wasp Colonies (Vespinae) and an Introduction to the Traditional Japanese Vespula Wasp Hunting Technique Tatsuya Saga1,2 1Tajimi Senior High School, 2Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Gifu University This methodological paper evaluates the productivity of a social wasp colony by examining the number of meconia per 100 cells of comb, to estimate the total number of adults the wasps produced. The associated video describes how to search for Vespula wasp nests, a method developed by amateur wasp chasers.
