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Visual Recognition in Social Wasps
2015Social recognition, i.e. the ability to recognize and assign individual membership to a particular and relevant class, such as caste, dominance status, gender or colony, shapes the amazing organization of insect societies. Traditionally, it has been assumed that social recognition in social insects is mainly governed by chemicals.
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2017
Wasps encompass solitary, communal, and facultative, obligate, and swarm-founding social species and are important model organisms for study of the origin and elaboration of insect sociality. Common names for social species are hover wasps, paper wasps, yellowjackets, hornets, and swarm-founding wasps. Excepting a few communal species, all social wasps
Hunt, James, Toth, Amy
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Wasps encompass solitary, communal, and facultative, obligate, and swarm-founding social species and are important model organisms for study of the origin and elaboration of insect sociality. Common names for social species are hover wasps, paper wasps, yellowjackets, hornets, and swarm-founding wasps. Excepting a few communal species, all social wasps
Hunt, James, Toth, Amy
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DISTANCES, ASSUMPTIONS AND SOCIAL WASPS
Cladistics, 1992The use of distance data in phylogenetic inference retains adherents in molecular systematics, despite the well-established cladistic critique of distances. Molecular distance matrices have been supposed to measure evolutionary divergence; how- ever, trees based upon analyses of such matrices are generally uninterpretable as doing so-under realistic ...
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Queen signaling in social wasps.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2014Social 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 ...
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Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions
Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021Invasive 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
1993Abstract 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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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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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, 1978The 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, 1989Abstract— 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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