▪ Abstract This review covers selected literature from 1982 to the present on some of the
ecological, behavioral, and biochemical aspects of hydrocarbon use by insects and other …

Severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit the parental
services of conspecifics or even heterospecifics in both birds and social insects. In Polistes …

SYNOPSIS. Many bioassays have shown that cuticular hydrocarbons are used in the
recognition systems of both solitary and social insects. The function of insect recognition …

Cooperative biological systems are susceptible to disruption by cheating. Using the social
bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, we have tested the short–term competitive fates of mixed …

A key component of parental care involves defending resources destined for offspring from a
diverse array of potential interspecific competitors, such as social parasites, fungi and …

Greenberg's landmark publication (Science 206 [1979]: 1095—1097) on kin recognition in
sweat bees was followed closely by experimental studies of kin recognition in primitively …

An experimental analysis was conducted to determine if chemicals from the cuticle of a
social wasp are used in nestmate recognition. These chemicals were also subsequently …

Colonies of the polistine wasp Polistes dominulus are parasitized by the permanent worker-
less social parasite Polistes sulcifer. After usurpation of the host colony, parasite females are …

Obligate social parasites in the social insects have lost the worker caste and the ability to
establish nests. As a result, parasites must usurp a host nest, overcome the host recognition …

Obligate insect social parasites evolve traits to effectively locate and then exploit their hosts,
whereas hosts have complex social behavioral repertoires, which include sensory …