Behavioural roles and task partitioning in the primitively eusocial wasp: Belonogaster juncea juncea (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-210

  Tindo, M ^a   Dejean, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Belonogaster; Division of labor; Polistinae; Primitively eusocial wasps; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WASP;

BELONOGASTER JUNCEA;

EID: 0030831802     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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