Group size, queuing and helping decisions in facultatively eusocial hover wasps

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 378-385

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Shreeves, Gavin ^a   Sumner, Seirian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eusociality; Group size; Queueing; Stenogastrinae; Wasps

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; NATAL DISPERSAL; WASP;

EID: 0032898510     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050574     Document Type: Article

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