Context-dependent nestmate discrimination in the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus: a critical test of the optimal acceptance threshold model
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The tolerance and aggression between nestmates and non-nestmates were studied in the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus, to determine whether nestmate discrimination is context-dependent. Three contexts were considered, namely dyads composed of a pair of non-nestmates, dyads composed of a pair of nestmates and triads composed of two nestmates and a non-nestmate. The findings showed that P. dominulus workers are capable of distinguishing between neighbors from non-neighbors, familiar from unfamiliar fragments and nestmates from non-nestmates.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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Why do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes chinensis antennalis remain at their natal nest?
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Research describing the behavior of the paper wasp is presented. In particular the factors affecting the decision of worker wasps to stay in their natal nests under field experimental conditions is investigated.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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Division of labour in colony defence against vertebrate predators by the social wasp Polistes fuscatus
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A new study of the paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus, looks at the defensive behaviour it exhibits when its colony is attacked by vertebrate predators.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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