Social life results in social stress protection: a novel concept to explain individual life‐history patterns in social insects

A Walton, JJ Herman, O Rueppell - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance to and avoidance of stress slow aging and confer increased longevity in
numerous organisms. Honey bees and other superorganismal social insects have two main …

[HTML][HTML] Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities

ME Scharf, CY Lee - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Insecticide resistance is an evolved ability to survive insecticide exposure. Compared with
nonsocial insects, eusocial insects have lower numbers of documented cases of resistance …

The Phenomenon of Reproductive Plasticity in Ants

F Carmona-Aldana, LW Yong, D Reinberg… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Worker ants exhibit limited ovary development and egg production.•Worker
reproduction is influenced by social context, environment and species.•The presence of …

Metabolomics analysis of larval secretions reveals a caste-driven nutritional shift in a social wasp colony

L Bodner, W Jasinska, S Bouchebti, I Scharf… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Social wasps exhibit a unique nutritional cycle in which adults feed larvae with prey, and
larvae provide adults with larval secretions (LS). LS serves as a vital nutritional source for …

[PDF][PDF] insecticide resistance, Current Opinion in Insect Science,(2024)

ME Scharf, CY Lee - ucrleelab.com
Insecticide resistance is an evolved ability to survive insecticide exposure. Compared to
nonsocial insects, eusocial insects have lower numbers of documented cases of resistance …