Why do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes chinensis antennalis remain at their natal nest?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 655-660

  Kumano, Norikuni ^a,b   Kasuya, Eiiti ^a,b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EUSOCIALITY; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES CHINENSIS; POLISTES CHINENSIS ANTENNALIS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0034969979     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1629     Document Type: Article

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