The cues have it; nest-based, cue-mediated recruitment to carbohydrate resources in a swarm-founding social wasp

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1017-1022

  Schueller, Teresa I ^a   Nordheim, Erik V ^b   Taylor, Benjamin J ^a   Jeanne, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 1110 Medical Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Cues; Foraging behavior; Polybia occidentalis; Recruitment; Signals

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SUCROSE;

CARBOHYDRATE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTORY CUE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); WASP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COSTA RICA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NESTING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COSTA RICA; CUES; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; PHEROMONES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 78650218882     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0712-9     Document Type: Article

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