Individuals within social groups often show consistent differences in behaviour across time
and context. Such interindividual differences and the evolutionary challenge they present …

In contrast to what is generally believed, the reproductive strategies of ants are remarkably
diverse and include such different phenomena, as wingless female and male sexuals …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

Resource discovery versus resource domination in ants: a functional mechanism for
breaking the trade-off Page 1 Ecological Entomology (1998) 23, 484–490 NEW …

Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the adaptive significance of
interspecific variation in mating frequencies by eusocial hymenopteran queens. Four of …

Multiple-queen societies of ants are key subjects in the study of communal breeding.
Societies of leptothoracine ants may be obligately monogynous (contain a single …

I tested the hypothesis that the distribution of territorial wood-ant species (Formica rufa
group) of different colony structure and dispersal strategy relate differently to the dynamics …

In colonies of social Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), workers are often not very closely
related to each other, because queens mate with several different males (polyandry) or …

After the nuptial flight, queens ofLasius nigeroccur in very high densities on the ground.
Queens in this study avoided areas frequented by workers of established colonies, leading …

Social parasitism is the coexistence in the same nest of two species of social insects, one of
which is parasitically dependent on the other. Though parasitism in general is known to be …