Relationship between the age of Vespa velutina workers and their defensive behaviour established from colonies maintained in the laboratory

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 437-444

  Monceau, K ^a   Bonnard, O ^a   Thiery D ^a  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Division of labour; Inbreeding; Queen control; Social insects; Temporal polyethism; Vespidae; Yellow legged hornet

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; COLONY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; INBREEDING; LABOR DIVISION; NEST; POLYETHISM; PREDATION; QUEEN; SURVIVAL; WASP; WORKER CASTE;

EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPA; VESPA VELUTINA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 84885648039     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-013-0308-4     Document Type: Article

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