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Chemical Defense of Brood by a Social Wasp
Science, 1970Ants 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
1993Abstract 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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Physiology and Reproduction in Social Wasps
1990Of 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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N-(3-methylbutyl)butanamide: A novel amide in the venom of female social wasps, Vespula vulgaris
Journal of Insect Physiology, 2021Robert L Brown +2 more
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Individual and Social Foraging in Social Wasps
2009Benjamin Taylor, Robert Jeanne
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