Toth, A. L., K. B. J. Bilof, M. T. Henshaw, J. H. Hunt, and G. E. Robinson. 2009. Lipid stores, ovary development, and brain gene expression in Polistes females. Insectes Sociaux 56: 77-84.

Carpenter, J. M., J. H. Hunt, and J. E. Strassmann. 2009. Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola: major extension of its range to Texas (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 115: 95–96.

Hunt, J. H. 2009. Interspecific adoption of orphaned nests by Polistes paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18: 136-139.

Hunt, J. H. 2007. The Evolution of Social Wasps. Oxford University Press, New York. xxi + 259 pp.

Hines, H. M., J. H. Hunt, T. K. O'Connor, J. J. Gillespie, and S. A. Cameron. 2007. Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 3295-3299.

Hunt, J. H., B. J. Kensinger, J. A. Kossuth, M. T. Henshaw, K. Norberg, F. Wolschin, and G. V. Amdam. 2007. A diapause pathway underlies the gyne phenotype in Polistes wasps, revealing an evolutionary route to caste-containing insect societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 14020-14025.

Toth, A. L., K. Varala, T. C. Newman, F. E. Miguez, S. Hutchison, D. Willoughby, J. F. Simons, M. Egholm, J. H. Hunt, M. E. Hudson, and G. E. Robinson. 2007. Wasp gene expression supports an evolutionary link between maternal behavior and eusociality. Science 318: 441-444.

Hunt, J. H. 2006. Evolution of castes in Polistes. Annales Zoologici Fennici 43: 407-422.

Hunt, J. H., and G. V. Amdam. 2005. Bivoltinism as an antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes. Science 308: 264-267.

Seal, J. N., and J. H. Hunt. 2004. Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 51: 239-242.

Hunt, J. H., and J. M. Carpenter. 2004. Intra-specific nest form variation in some Neotropical swarm-founding wasps of the genus Parachartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77: 448-456.

Hunt, J. H. 2003. Cryptic Herbivores of the Rainforest Canopy. Science 300:916-917

Hunt, J. H., N. A. Buck, and D. E. Wheeler. 2003. Storage proteins in vespid wasps: characterization, developmental pattern, and occurrence in adults. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 785-794.

Karsai, I., and J. H. Hunt. 2002. Food quantity affects traits of offspring in the paper wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Environmental Entomology 31: 99-106.

Hunt, J. H., and M. A. Dove. 2002. Nourishment affects colony demographics in the paper wasp Polistes metricus. Ecological Entomology 27: 467-474.

Hunt, J. H., S. O'Donnell, N. Chernoff, and C. Brownie. 2001. Observations on two Neotropical swarm-founding wasps, Agelaia yepocapa and A. panamaensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 555-562.

Hunt, J. H., R. D. Cave, and G. R. Borjas. 2001. First records from Honduras of a yellowjacket wasp, Vespula squamosa (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 74: 118-119.