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  • 1
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    Endogenous factors, external cues, and eccentric construction inPolistes annularis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) (1989)
    Springer
    Journal of insect behavior 2 (1989), S. 679-699 
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    ISSN: 1572-8889
    Keywords: nest architecture ; construction ; inclination ; eccentric ; Polistes annularis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract This study explores the relationship between various factors and the construction of the distinctive inclined, eccentric, and curved combs of Polistes annularis.Foundation and early construction show stereotypical inclination and bilateral symmetry. Eccentric comb shape is modestly related to inclination and highly repeatable by wasps building on combs of high inclination. Later construction by the foundresses or by their worker offspring is less stereotypical. Features associated with curvature of mature nests, such as nonhexagonal cells, are peculiar to construction by workers and occur nonrandomly, suggesting functional adaptation.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01065786
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  • 2
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    Organization and Regulation of Nest Construction Behavior in Metapolybia Wasps (2000)
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    Journal of insect behavior 13 (2000), S. 111-140 
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    ISSN: 1572-8889
    Keywords: organization ; regulation ; specialization ; building behavior ; social wasp
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Field observations and experiments revealed that construction behavior of Metapolybia wasps is based on parallel processing and distributed decision making. Sixteen behaviors were used to separate five behavioral groupings: specialized water forager, flexible pulpforager, active builder, active generalist, and idle. The idle category proved to be the source and the sink of the other task groups, although specialist foragers tend to retain their duties or take over other active roles. Nest construction is partitioned into three tasks. Pulp foragers transfer wood-pulp to the nest where other wasps (builders) distribute and process it further. The builders incorporate this material into the nest structure on the basis of individual decisions. Water foragers provide the extra water necessary for both building and pulp collecting. Material exchange takes place on the nest between pairs or in small groups. The duration and frequency of different behaviors, the number of wasps belonging to different behavioral groups, and the different scale of specialization in different groups suggest that the colony-level performance and speed are governed by the activity of the pulp foragers, who receive information about both the water saturation level of the colony and the activity of the builders through local interactions. Several predictions of this hypothesis were supported by disturbing the normal construction behavior through removing or decreasing the number of individuals belonging to different behavioral groups or supplying additional building material.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007771727503
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    Surface lipids of social waspPolistes melricus say and its nest and nest pedicel and their relation to nestmate recognition (1990)
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    Journal of chemical ecology 16 (1990), S. 2229-2241 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Polistes metricus ; Hymenoptera ; Vespidae ; social wasps ; cuticular hydrocarbons ; nestmate recognition ; nest pedicel
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract In eight replicate laboratory tests wherePolistes metricus adults were allowed to choose between their own nest, a second nest, and neither nest, they selected their own nest 66% of the observed time. When the surface hydrocarbons had been extracted from the nests, the wasps chose their own nest only 8% of the time, but after the hydrocarbons were reapplied to the surface of the respective nests, they selected their own nest 47% of the time. These changes are significant. The cuticular lipids were analyzed from individualP. metricus adult females collected from 13 colonies. Surface lipids were recovered from the paper and pedicels of their nests. Eighteen hydrocarbons were identified in these lipid fractions. The major components of the wasp cuticular lipids weren-heptacosane,n-nonacosane, methylhentriacontane, and methyltritriacontane. Factor analysis revealed that extracts of pedicels are all similar in composition, while cuticle and paper extracts vary, sometimes similarly according to colony identity.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01026933
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  • 4
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    Dynamics of colony development in Polistes dominulus: a modeling approach (1996)
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    Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 39 (1996), S. 97-105 
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    ISSN: 1432-0762
    Keywords: Key words Paper wasps ; Colony development ; Model ; Feedback ; Dynamics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A simple model based on feedback mechanisms is developed to describe the dynamics of brood production and colony development of primitively eusocial paper wasps. The presence of pupae and empty cells stimulate egg laying, which varies between a basic rate and a physiological maximum. Newly hatched larvae are fed eggs, causing fluctuations in brood demography and forming cohorts of offspring. The basic feedback mechanisms produce emergent colony-level properties such as synchronized development of the brood and mature nest size. Results suggest that it is incorrect to imply colony decline from lack of nest growth, and that production of waves of offspring can be interpreted as the inevitable result of these simple feedback mechanisms rather than the solution to ultimate optimality criteria. Simulations using the parameters estimated in Polistes dominulus Christ are compared to studies of live wasps to test the validity of the model. Comparing simulated results with a perturbation experiment in nature suggests that feedback relationships establish a system that is robust and resilient against severe disturbance.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002650050271
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    Pheromonal covariation and kinship in social beeLasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) (1988)
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    Journal of chemical ecology 14 (1988), S. 87-94 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Pheromone ; correlation ; kinship ; Dufour's gland ; social bee ; Lasioglossum zephyrum ; Hymenoptera ; Halictidae ; lactones
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract Both males and females of the primitively eusocial beeLasioglossum zephyrum can distinguish among female conspecifics with regard to genealogical relationship. Closely related females covary with respect to Dufour's gland pheromone products which are believed to function in individual or kin recognition. This is the first report of a population-wide parallel between similarity of communicative glandular product and genetic similarity.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01022533
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