Nesting substrata, colony success and productivity of the wasp Mischocyttarus cassununga.
Colonies of the wasp Mischocyttarus cassununga (von Ihering, 1903) are easily found in …

Eusocial species live in colonies with a reproductive division of labour into fertile
reproductive castes and sterile non-reproductive castes, an overlap of generations and …

Phenotypic divergence plays an important role in establishment of the reproductive division
of labor among castes in social insects; however, little is known about this subject in …

The objective of this work was to quantify the aggressive interactions shown by females of P
ferreri. Seventy-two hours of videotape were made of six colonies (three in the pre …

Dominance behaviours among members of colonies of primitively eusocial wasps establish
the social hierarchy, and are very important for the maintenance of social stability. The …

Produtividade comparativa de Mischocyttarus cerberus styx (Richards, 1940) and
Mischocyttarus cassununga Saussure (von Ihering, 1903) em ambiente antrópico para …

abstract A common problem during the construction of dominance hierarchies is the
occurrence of tied ranks that make it difficult to find correlations between the dominance …

As vespas, devido à característica difilética do grupo, são um excelente modelo para se
tentar compreender a evolução do comportamento social nos Hymenoptera. A biologia e a …

As a result of the diversity in the repertoire of individual tasks in colonies of social wasps,
dominant and subordinate females differ significantly in their longevity and, therefore, they …

A família Vespidae é dividida em seis subfamílias, sendo elas Euparagiinae, Masarinae,
Eumeninae, Stenogastrinae, Polistinae e Vespinae (Carpenter & Marques, 2001). Polistinae …