Publications

Research Publications

Jandt JM, Barratt BIP, Dickinson K, McCombe G, Tully J, Lord JM. 2025. The impact of floral complexity on bumble bee colony development, pollination efficacy, and fruit production in tomatoes. Apidologie 56: 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-025-01150-7

Sanger GJ, Lord JM, Jandt JM. 2025. Preference and performance of Vanessa gonerilla gonerilla on native and introduced nettles of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 49: 3581. doi: https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.49.3581

Thomas L, Holwell G, Jandt J, Johnson S. 2025. Weapon allometry and shape variation in the Helm’s Stag Beetle (Geodorcus helmsi). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 144: blae024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae024

Ni S, McCulloch GA, Kroos GC, King TM, Dutoit L, Foster BJ, Hema K, Jandt JM, Peng M, Dearden PK, Waters JM. 2024. Human-driven evolution of color in a stonefly mimic. Science 386: 453-458. doi: 10.1126/science.ado533

Jandt JM, McCall E, Toth A. 2024. Native Polistes wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) hold potential as biocontrol agents for lepidopteran pests of Brassica. Journal of Economic Entomology 117: 1753-1759. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toae146

Detoni M, Johnson SL, Adams CIM, Bengston S, Jandt JM. 2023. Older, but not wiser: social wasp colony defensive behavior decreases with time, not experience. Insectes Sociaux 70: 81-96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-022-00893-1

Chen JPL, Dickinson KJM, Barratt BIP, Jandt JM. 2022. Beetle (Coleoptera) communities inside and outside the pest-resistant fencing of a New Zealand ecosanctuary. New Zealand Entomologist 45: 17-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2022.2120594

Neupert S, Jandt JM, Szyszka P. 2022. Sugar alcohols have the potential as bee-safe feeding stimulants for wasp control. Pest Management Science 78 (7), 3005-3011. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.6925

Perry BJ, Darestani MM, Ara MG, Hoste A, Jandt JM, Dutoit L, Holmes EC, Ingram T, Geoghegan JL. 2022. Viromes of freshwater fish with lacustrine and diadromous life histories differ in composition. Viruses 14: 257. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14020257

Detoni M, Feás X, Jeanne RL, Loope KJ, O’Donnell S, Santoro D, Sumner S, Jandt JM. 2021. Evolutionary and ecological pressures shaping social wasps collective defenses. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 114: 581-595 doi: 10.1093/aesa/saaa063

Jandt JM, Detoni M, Loope KJ, Santoro D. 2020. Vespula wasps show consistent differences in colony-level aggression over time and across contexts. Insectes Sociaux 67: 367-381. doi: 10.1007/s00040-020-00768-3

Lamb SD, McCombe GGI, Lawrence E, Macwan R, Mayer T, Jandt JM. 2020. Subterranean nesting behaviour in response to soil moisture conditions in the southern ant, Monomorium antarcticum Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). New Zealand Entomologist 43(1): 33-43. doi: 10.1080/00779962.2020.1764700

Iwasaki JM, Barratt BIP, Jandt M, Jowett TWD, Lord JM, Mercer AR, Dickinson KJM. 2020. Honey bees do not displace foraging bumble bees on nectar-rich artificial flowers. Apidologie 51(1): 137-146. doi: h10.1007/s13592-019-00690-z

Walton, A, Jandt, JM, Dornhaus, A. 2019. Guard bees are more likely to act as undertakers: variation in corpse removal in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens. Insectes Sociaux. 66(4): 533-541. doi: 10.1007/s00040-019-00718-8

Miller, SE, Bluher, SE, Bell, E, Cini, A, da Silva, RC, de Souza, AR, Gandia, KM, Jandt, JM, Loope, K, Prato, A, Pruitt, JN, Rankin, D, Rankin, E, Southon, RJ, Uy, FMK, Weiner, S, Wright, CM, Downing, H, Gadagkar, R, Lorenzi, MC, Rusina, L, Sumner, S, Tibbetts, EA, Toth, A, Sheehan, MJ. 2018. WASPnest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior. Ecology 99(10): 2405-2405. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2448

Jandt, JM, Suryanarayanan, S, Hermanson, JC, Jeanne, RL, Toth, AL. 2017. Maternal and nourishment factors interact to influence offspring developmental trajectories in social wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 20170651. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0651

Jandt, JM, Gordon, DM. 2016. The behavioral ecology of variation in social insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 15: 40-44. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.02.012

Sheehan, MJ, Botero, CA, Hendry, TA, Sedio, BE, Jandt, JM, Weiner, S, Toth, AL, Tibbetts, EA. 2015. Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistes paper wasps. Ecology Letters 18(10): 1057-1067. doi: 10.1111/ele.12488

McGlynn, TP, Graham, R, Wilson, J, Emerson, J, Jandt, JM, Jahren, AH. 2015. Distinct types of foragers in the ant Ectatomma ruidum: typical foragers and furtive thieves. Animal Behaviour 109: 243-247. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.024

Jandt, JM, Hall, E, McGlynn, T. 2015. Intraspecific food-robbing and neighborhood competition: consequences for anti-robber vigilance and colony productivity. Biotropica 47: 491-496. doi: 10.1111/btp.12234

Jandt, JM, Toth, AL. 2015. Physiological and genomic mechanisms of social organization in wasps (Family: Vespidae). Advances in Insect Physiology 48: 95-130. doi: 10.1016/bs.aiip.2015.01.003

Jandt, JM, Thomson, J, Geffre, AC, Toth, AL. 2015. Lab rearing environment perturbs social traits: a case study with Polistes wasps. Behavioral Ecology 26(5): 1274-1284. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv082

Bengston, SE, Jandt, JM. 2014. The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2: 81. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00081

Jandt, JM, Tibbetts, EA, Toth, AL. 2014. Polistes paper wasps: a model genus for the study of social dominance hierarchies. Insectes Sociaux 61(1): 11-27. doi: 10.1007/s00040-013-0328-0

Jandt, JM, Dornhaus, A. 2014. Bumble bee response thresholds and body size: the amount of variation among workers may affect colony performance. Animal Behaviour 87: 97-106. doi: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2014.00081/full

Jandt, JM, Bengston, S, Pinter-Wolman, N, Pruitt, J, Raine, NE, Dornhaus, A, Sih, A. 2014. Behavioral syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels. Biological Reviews 89: 48-67. doi: 10.1111/brv.12042

Jandt, JM, Larson, HK, Tellez, P, McGlynn, TP. 2013. To drink or grasp? How bullet ants (Paraponera clavata) differentiate between sugars and proteins in liquids. Naturwissenschaften 100: 1109-1114. doi: 10.1007/s00114-013-1109-3

Jandt, JM, Robbins, NS, Moore, R, Dornhaus, A. 2012. Individual bumblebees vary in response to disturbance: a test of the defensive reserve hypothesis. Insectes Sociaux 59: 313-321. doi: 10.1007/s00040-012-0222-1

Jandt, JM, Dornhaus, A. 2011. Competition and cooperation: bumblebee spatial organization and division of labor may affect worker reproduction late in life. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. 65: 2341-2349. doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1244-9

Couvillon, MJ, Jandt, JM, Helm, B, Dornhaus, A. 2011. Percent lipid associated with body size but not task in the bumble bee, Bombus impatiens. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 197: 1097‐1104. doi: 10.1007/s00359-011-0670-5

Couvillon, MJ, Jandt, JM, Duong, N, Dornhaus, A. 2010. Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) colonies. Ecological Entomology 35: 424-435. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01198.x

Jandt, JM, Taylor, B, Jeanne, RL. 2010. Temperature and forager body size affect carbohydrate collection in German yellowjackets, Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 57: 275-283. doi: 10.1007/s00040-010-0082-5

Jandt, JM, Huang, E, Dornhaus A. 2009. Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 63: 1829-1836. doi: 10.1007/s00265-009-0810-x

Jandt, JM, Dornhaus, A. 2009. Spatial organization and division of labor in the bumble bee, Bombus impatiens. Animal Behaviour 77: 641-651. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.019

Jandt, JM, Riel, L, Crain, B, Jeanne, RL. 2005. Vespula germanica foragers do not scent-mark carbohydrate food sites. Journal of Insect Behavior 18: 19-31. doi: 10.1007/s10905-005-9344-x

Jandt, JM, Jeanne, RL. 2005. German yellowjacket (Vespula germanica) foragers use odors inside the nest to find carbohydrate food sources. Ethology 111: 641-651. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01088.x

Jandt, JM, Curry, C, Hemauer, S, Jeanne, RL. 2005. The accumulation of a chemical cue: Nest entrance trail in the German yellowjacket, Vespula germanica. Naturwissenschaften 92: 242-245. doi: 10.1007/s00114-005-0613-5

Book Review

Bengston, SE, Jandt, JM, Dornhaus, A. 2011. Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches. Contemporary Topics in Entomology Series. Edited by Stefan Jarau and Michael Hrncir. CRC Press. Boca Raton (Florida): Taylor & Francis. The Quarterly Review of Biology 86: 359.

Other Publications

Jandt JM. 2023. Insects and spiders make up more than half NZ’s animal biodiversity – time to celebrate these spineless creatures. The Conversation. Published: January 6, 2023