Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-242

  Seal, J N ^a,b   Hunt, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual life cycle; Food supplementation; Life history; Polistes; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT LOUIS; UNITED STATES;

APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; CHRISTIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PHACELIA CONGESTA; POLISTES; POLISTES METRICUS; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; VESPIDAE;

EID: 4344638192     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-004-0733-5     Document Type: Article

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