Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human–wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan

Table 5 The personal records of an individual wasp collector in Akechi, Ena city, Gifu prefecture

Year	No of trips	Average group size	Nests collected	Nests per trip	Nests per person	Nests per person per trip	Wasps hibernated
2002	37	4.28	69	1.9	16.1	0.4	2146
2003	39	3.9	79	2.0	20.3	0.5	3257
2004	42	3.63	96	2.3	26.4	0.6	1903
2005	41	2.46	53	1.3	21.5	0.5	1765
2006	29	2.66	28	1.0	10.5	0.4	5800
2007	22	2.95	19	0.9	6.4	0.3	1118
2008	29	2.72	23	0.8	8.5	0.3	2255
2009	25	2.64	20	0.8	7.6	0.3	2313
2010	26	2.69	12	0.5	4.5	0.2	2045
2011	24	2.59	13	0.5	5.0	0.2	3145
2012	29	2.52	10	0.3	4.0	0.1	2229
Average	31.2	3.0	38.4	1.1	11.9	0.4	2543.3

For each year: ‘Number of trips’ indicates the total wasp chasing trips that he was a part of during the spring; ‘Average group size’ indicates the average number of people with whom he went on each trip; ‘Nests collected’ indicates the total nests collected by groups that he was a part of; ‘Wasps hibernated’ indicates the total number of wasps that he collected and put into protective boxes in the late autumn, for hibernation over the winter months

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