The Pickett Lab
Taxonomy, Evolution, Behavior
Getting Stung the World OVer,
One Wasp At A time
Expedition Blog
Follow along with the Pickett Lab’s expeditions. Each year, lab members and collaborators travel the world to collect wasps for morphological and molecular vouchers and to conduct behavioral observations of wasps.
Below are excerpts from the last 20 blog entries. Click “READ MORE” below each to see the entire blog with larger photos. Click “GO TO ARCHIVE” to see previous posts.
Images from Paraguay expedition, 2007. From top to bottom, left to right: Northern Paraguay swamp; cactus, northern Paraguay; Polistes cavapyta, just north of Asunción; mountain, tucan, and getting stuck in the muck near the mountain.

The Pickett Lab
Department of Biology, University of Vermont, 120A Marsh Life Science, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA