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Queen signaling in social wasps.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2014
Social Hymenoptera are characterized by a reproductive division of labor, whereby queens perform most of the reproduction and workers help to raise her offspring. A long-lasting debate is whether queens maintain this reproductive dominance by manipulating their daughter workers into remaining sterile (queen control), or if instead queens honestly ...
van Zweden, Jelle Stijn, Bonckaert, Wim, Wenseleers, Tom, D'Ettorre, Patrizia   +3 more
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Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions

Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021
Invasive species are a main driver of biodiversity loss and ecological change globally. Consequently, there is a need to understand how invaders damage ecosystems and to develop effective management strategies. Social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) include some of the world's most ecologically damaging invasive insects.
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Systematics and sociality of wasps

1993
Abstract The order Hymenoptera is divided into two suborders, Symphyta and Apocrita, and the latter is further divided into Terebrantia and Aculeata. Eusociality only occurs in the Aculeata and one group of the Terebrantia, the Chalcidoidea, in which one species, Capidosomopsis tanytmemus has sterile, defensive larvae, like aphid ...
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Social wasps and loners

Nature, 1974
Wasps: An Account of the Biology and Natural History of Solitary and Social Wasps, with Particular Reference to Those of the British Isles. By J. P. Spradbery. Pp. xvi + 408 (28 plates). (Sidgwick and Jackson: London, September 1973; University of Washington: Seattle, November 1973.) £8.50; $17.50.
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The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae).

Australian Journal of Zoology, 1978
The social wasps of Australia are described, together with a few from New Guinea which are allied to the Australian ones and contribute to the understanding of their taxonomic position. The larvae and the nesting habits of the wasps are described so far as they are known. Three genera occur in Australia.
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TESTING SCENARIOS: WASP SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Cladistics, 1989
Abstract— A complex evolutionary model is tested with a cladistic approach. Cladograms constructed for all of the genera of social Vespidae are optimized for characters associated with social behavior. The character state assignments to the interior nodes are compared with the stages envisioned in the “polygynous family” hypothesis for the evolution of
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Chemical Defense of Brood by a Social Wasp

Science, 1970
Ants are a constant threat to the nests of tropical social wasps. Adults of the neotropical social wasp Mischocyttarus drewseni apply a secretion to the nest stem which is repellent to ants foraging for food by scouting and recruiting, and effectively keeps them from gaining access to the nest and discovering the ...
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Social lives of the other social wasps

1993
Abstract For a long time, the basic social system of the wasps and hornets of the subfamily Vespinae was thought to be exclusively haplometrotic (Jeanne 1980; Akre 1982). Although their nests all have multiple combs and envelopes similar to those of the nests of Polybia and some Ropalidia (subgenus Icarielia), no case of swarm-founding ...
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Age and social experience induced plasticity across brain regions of the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus

Biology Letters, 2021
Christopher Jernigan, Michael Sheehan
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Physiology and Reproduction in Social Wasps

1990
Of all social insects, probably the least well known are social wasps. This is especially true of the mechanisms of caste induction and the regulation of reproductory functions in the wasp colony.
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