Genetic relatedness does not predict the queen's successors in the ...
At the end of summer, the newly emerged mated queens leave their colonies and can form clusters of hundreds of individuals in sheltered places, known as ...
The Social Biology of Polistine Wasps - Deep Blue RepositoriesBecause queens of primitively eusocial wasps are known to be aggressive individuals and are believed to use physical aggression to suppress ... High indirect fitness benefits for helpers across the nesting cycle in ...Adults are slender, elongat- ed wasps with a pointed, spindle-shaped abdomen, and show little obvious morphological differentiation into the queen and worker ... Nesting behaviour of the paper wasp Polistes dominulaWe observe some instances of apparent half sibling queens (right tail) or cousins in shared nests, but most nestmate queens appear to be ...
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