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Distribution of Social Wasps in Two Metropolitan Cities (Busan and Daegu) of South Korea

  • Kim, Chang-Jun (Division of Forest Biodiversity, Korea National Arboretum) ;
  • Choi, Moon Bo (School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2021.03.27
  • Accepted : 2021.04.01
  • Published : 2021.05.01
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Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze social wasps' urban distribution tendency based on 10 species found in two metropolitan cities (Busan and Daegu) of South Korea. There 10 species included six species (Vespa mandarinia, V. ducalis, V. crabro flavofasciata, Vespula koreensis koreensis, Parapolybia indica, and Polistes snelleni) of forest dwellers that inhabited urban main forests and satellite forests, two species (V. simillima simillima and V. analis parallela) of facultative dwellers that nested at diverse sites of urban areas with greater preference for urban forest, and two species (V. velutina nigrithorax and P. rothneyi koreanus) of urban dwellers that nested at almost all sites, including urban and forest areas. These urban dwellers were found to adapt well to an urban environment based on their far higher rate of urban nesting compared to facultative dwellers. When distribution tendencies of facultative dwellers and urban dwellers in Busan and Daegu were compared, a regular distribution was mostly observed in Busan with a dense forest network. For Daegu that lacked forest connectivity, the greatest distribution of species was found in the nearby urban forest. For Daegu, a city further away from forests, urban dwellers occurred far beyond forest sites compared to Busan with a dense forest network.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Dr. SH Oh and Dr. BW Lee of the Korea National Arboretum for supporting this research. This research was funded by a grant (KNA 1-1-25, 19-1) of the Korea National Arboretum, Korea Forest Service.

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