Wasps and Wine: Paper Wasps Contribute to Sour Rot Disease, a Scourge of Wine Industry (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Wasps and Wine: Paper Wasps Contribute to Sour Rot Disease, a Scourge of Wine Industry

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New research led by Tufts University shows that the invasive European paper wasp, Polistes dominulus, plays a role in facilitating sour rot disease in the absence of other insects.

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Sean D. Boyden, undergraduate student in the Department of Biology at Tufts University.

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