Sociality outside the nest: Helpers in pre-hibernating clusters of Polistes dominulus

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Dapporto, Leonardo ^a,b   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a   Turillazzi, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OVERWINTERING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 18744412693     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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