Grooming patterns in the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes dominulus

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 825-833

  Sumana, A ^a   Starks, Philip T ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; GROOMING; WASP;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 7244224969     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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