Just a week or so after my last post where I had the outlandish idea that someday we may find out that paper wasps are able to differentiate human faces as well as pheromones, New Scientist came out with a story that these wasps indeed can recognize their own faces. “Despite having a brain less than a millionth the size of ours, queen paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) can recognise each other’s faces.” I knew something was going on in that little head of hers.
A super cute photo of the wasp (as well as some more menacing ones) can be found here.
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