Evolutionarily stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1979 Abstract Two alternative “strategies” will not coexist in a population unless on average they are equally successful. The most likely way for such an equilibrium to be maintained is through something equivalent to frequency-dependent selection. Females of the digger wasp Sphex ichneumoneus (Sphecidae) nest in underground burrows. They usually dig and
Brockmann, H, Grafen, A, Dawkins, R
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Loss of safety in numbers and a novel driver of mass migration: radiotelemetry reveals heavy wasp predation on a band of Mormon crickets [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Coordinated movement of animals is a spectacular phenomenon that has received much attention. Experimental studies of Mormon crickets and locust nymphs have demonstrated that collective motion can arise from cannibalism that compensates for nutritional ...
Robert B. Srygley, Patrick D. Lorch
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The European Zoological Journal, 2022 Nesting habits of the digger wasp Lindenius albilabris (Fabricius, 1793) at two localities in Poland were studied. The female hunts nymphs or adults of plant bugs Lygus rugulipennis Poppius, 1911 and L.
P. Olszewski +3 more
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Nesting biology of Mimumesa littoralis (Bondroit, 1934) (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes) in Poland
The European Zoological Journal, 2023 The biology of Mimumesa littoralis was studied on sandy soil (Sierakowo) and wasteland with hard substrate (Kowalewo Pomorskie) in northern Poland. The study presents information on the bionomics of the rare digger wasp Mimumesa littoralis (Bondroit,1934)
P. Olszewski +3 more
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Distribution and Biology of the Sphecine Wasps of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sphecinae) [PDF]
, 2017 Biological information and distribution maps are provided for the 26 species of thread-waisted wasps that occur in Michigan. Podium luctuosum is a new state record.
O\u27Brien, Mark F
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New data on the fauna of digger wasps of the genus Prionyx Vander Linden, 1827 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Prionychini) of Belarus [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетеньTwo species of digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), Prionyx nudatus (Kohl, 1885) and P. subfuscatus (Dahlbom, 1845), are recorded for the Republic of Belarus for the first time.
A.M. Ostrovsky
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Late Summer-Fall Solitary Wasp Fauna of Central New York (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae, Pompilidae, Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Eighty-one species of primarily ground-nesting solitary wasps belonging to the families Tiphiidae, Pompilidae and Sphecidae were observed, collected and identified from six sandy and gravelly study areas in Cayuga and Onondaga Counties, New York.
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Sex-biased parental care and sexual size dimorphism in a provisioning arthropod [PDF]
, 2015 The diverse selection pressures driving the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have long been debated. While the balance between fecundity selection and sexual selection has received much attention, explanations based on sex-specific ecology have ...
A Herrel +87 more
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Ethology and Overwintering of \u3ci\u3ePodalonia Luctuosa\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 The nesting and overwintering behavior of Podalonia luctuosa (Smith) was studied in New York and Colorado. Females provisioned shallow (ca. 2 cm deep), unicellular nests with a single cutworm (Noctuidae) during April, May, and July.
Kurczewski, Frank E, O\u27Brien, Mark F
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Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2019 An annotated list is given and the distribution of five species of digger wasps genus Ammophila, collected in the circumpolar regions of Western Siberia (in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District) in 2017, is specified.
R. T.-o Baghirov, A. A. Nesterovich
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