Behavioral Observations on eumenid wasps in Eastern California

Beginning in the summer of 1999 John Smiley observed foraging and nest building behavior of the prey-specialist Eumenid Wasp (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae) Symmorphus cristatus. He developed a set of criteria for recording the behavioral observations as a time series of events, for individually marked wasps and nesting holes. The data set consists of a large number of single observations, with a time stamp on each. The data were used to generate descriptive data for an article which appeared in Sears,A.L., Smiley,J.T., Hilker,M., Muller,F., and Rank,N.E. "Nesting behavior and prey use in two geographically separated populations of the specialist wasp Symmorphus cristatus (Vespidae: Eumeninae)." American Midland Naturalist (accepted fpr publication) (2001).1999年夏季起，约翰·斯迈利（John Smiley）针对猎物专食性蜾蠃蜂（Eumenid Wasp，膜翅目（Hymenoptera）：蜾蠃科（Eumenidae））即刻点细腰蜾蠃（Symmorphus cristatus）的觅食与筑巢行为开展观察。他制定了一套记录准则，以事件时间序列的形式，对个体标记的该蜂类及其筑巢孔的行为观察数据进行记录。本数据集包含大量单次观察记录，每条记录均附带对应时间戳。相关数据被用于生成一篇学术论文的描述性内容，该论文作者为Sears,A.L.、Smiley,J.T.、Hilker,M.、Muller,F.及Rank,N.E.，题为《两种地理隔离种群的专食性蜂类刻点细腰蜾蠃（Symmorphus cristatus，胡蜂科（Vespidae）：蜾蠃亚科（Eumeninae））的筑巢行为与猎物利用》，发表于《美国中部博物学家（American Midland Naturalist）》（2001年，已接收待刊）。