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 …

Brood parasitism is the introduction of unrelated progeny into the nest or colony of a host
that then raises the foreign young. This reproductive strategy has evolved independently …

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 …

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists.
Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its …

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 …

First published in 1994. Infanticide is an extremely complex behavioral pattern that occurs
throughout the animal kingdom and it must be considered not only in isolation but also from …

The paper wasp Polistes atrimandibularis is an obligatory social parasite of another Polistes
species, P. biglumis bimaculatus. To control the host nest, the parasite sequentially changes …

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 …

Highlights•We compared the cuticular signatures of parasite brood and host brood in social
wasps.•Their signatures differed and parasite larvae and pupae had alkenes, absent in …