Wasps in the shadow: Looking at the pre-hibernating clusters of Polistes dominulus

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 583-594

  Dapporto, Leonardo ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ALTRUISM; HIBERNATION; KIN RECOGNITION; LABOR DIVISION; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS;

EID: 33846861538     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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