Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
The wasps belonging to this family are all social species, the colonies consisting of one or more fertile queens, workers which are frequently numerous and usually infertile, and, at times, males and new queens.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
