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）对专性捕食特定猎物的蜾蠃蜂（Eumenid Wasp，膜翅目Hymenoptera: 蜾蠃科Eumenidae）冠眼蜾蠃（Symmorphus cristatus）的觅食与筑巢行为展开观测。他针对个体标记的蜾蠃个体及筑巢孔洞，制定了一套将行为观测记录为事件时间序列的标准规范。本数据集包含大量单次观测样本，每条观测均附带时间戳。上述数据被用于生成描述性内容，以支撑Sears,A.L.、Smiley,J.T.、Hilker,M.、Muller,F.及Rank,N.E.发表于《American Midland Naturalist》（2001年，已接收待刊）的论文《两种地理隔离种群的专性捕食蜾蠃Symmorphus cristatus（胡蜂科Vespidae: 蜾蠃亚科Eumeninae）的筑巢行为与猎物利用》。