The Sumner Lab

Insect Research Group, University College London

  • Our Group
    • The Sumner Lab
    • Seirian Sumner
    • Cintia Akemi Oi
    • Christopher Wyatt
    • Benjamin Taylor
    • Alex Cerqueira de Araujo
    • Fernando Duarte Frutos
    • Iona Cunningham-Eurich
    • Romuald Tcheutchoua
    • Idris Adams
    • Femi E Benny
    • Caroline Chandler
    • Left The Nest
      • Owen Corbett
      • Lewis Revely
      • Emeline Favreau
      • Alessandro Cini
      • Robin Southon
      • Adam Devenish
      • Sandra Moreno
      • Daisy Taylor
      • Emily Bell
      • Sam Duckerin
      • Patrick Kennedy
  • Our Research
    • Themes
      • Evolution
      • Genomics and Bioinformatics
      • Mechanisms and Development
      • Ecology and Human interactions
    • Lab Publications
    • Student Projects
    • The Big Wasp Survey
    • Eco-Flow
    • Wasp Genomes
  • News and Updates
  • Endless Forms
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  • Wasps Matter

    Wasps matter  – in your backyard, your farm, your local wild space Everyone appreciates the ‘good things’ bees, ants, hoverflies and even butterflies do for ecosystems on this planet. But for taxa that we don’t know much about, they can go unnoticed or worse – hated. Wasps are one such unloved organism, mainly because of their sting.…

    News, Uncategorized
    10 November 2022
  • Autumn 2015: Welcome to four new group members!

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    21 October 2015
  • Autumn 2015: Welcome to four new group members! Check

    Autumn 2015: Welcome to four new group members! Check out their webpages to find out what they are doing! PhD student Sandra Moreno; Masters by Research students Ryan Brock and Sam Morris; Volunteer Thomas Courty

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    21 October 2015

RECENT Publications

2025 Devenish, A.J.M., Newton, R.J., Midgley, J.J., Colville, L., Bridle, J., Sumner, S. 2025. Mutualistic interactions facilitate invasive species spread. Functional Ecology, 39 (1), 254-267. Corbett O., Dreier S, Lengronne T, Patalano S, Reuter M, and Sumner S.  Compensation of labour by non-competing workers mitigates costs of aggression-based queen succession in the social wasp, Polistes […]

Full publication list here

rECENT POSTS

  • Louisa Stefani: Does increased awareness and understanding of wasps change public perceptions of their importance and utility?

    29 January 2026
  • Hoi Lam Daisy Choi: Investigating the Evolutionary Patterns of Diets and Predatory Wasps

    29 January 2026
  • Sophie Staples. Assessing the impact of land-use on fluctuating asymmetry and body size in the common yellow jacket wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

    29 January 2026

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