The invasion, provenance and diversity of Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Great Britain

Giles E. Budge; Jennifer Hodgetts; Eleanor P. Jones; Jozef C. Ostojá-Starzewski; Jayne Hall; Victoria Tomkies; Nigel Semmence; Mike Brown; Maureen Wakefield; Kirsty Stainton

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185172

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The invasion, provenance and diversity of Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Great Britain

Giles E. Budge ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: giles.budge@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliations Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom, Institute for Agri-Food Research and Innovation, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6175-2095

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Jennifer Hodgetts,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Eleanor P. Jones,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Jozef C. Ostojá-Starzewski,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Jayne Hall,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Victoria Tomkies,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Nigel Semmence,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Bee Unit, Animal and Plant Health Agency, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Mike Brown,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Bee Unit, Animal and Plant Health Agency, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Maureen Wakefield,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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Kirsty Stainton

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fera, The National Agrifood Innovation Campus, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
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The invasion, provenance and diversity of Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Great Britain

Giles E. Budge,
Jennifer Hodgetts,
Eleanor P. Jones,
Jozef C. Ostojá-Starzewski,
Jayne Hall,
Victoria Tomkies,
Nigel Semmence,
Mike Brown,
Maureen Wakefield,
Kirsty Stainton

Published: September 26, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185172

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