Nest materials and some chemical characteristics of nests of a New World swarm-founding polistine wasp, Polybia paulista (Hymenoptera Vespidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 351-360

  Kudo K ^a   Yamane, Sô ^b   Mateus, S ^c   Tsuchida, K ^a   Ito Y ^d   Miyano, S ^e   Yamamoto, H ^b   Zucchi, R ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Natural History Museum and Institute ^*  (Japan)

^e NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Nest material; Oral secretion; Polybia paulista; Social wasp; Swarm founding

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NEST; SECRETION; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES; POLYBIA; POLYBIA PAULISTA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0035701866     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2001.9522766     Document Type: Article

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