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Initiation of Absconding-Swarm Emigration in the Social Wasp Polybia occidentalis

When a colony of the swarm-founding social wasp Polybia occidentals loses its nest to severe weather or predation, the adult population evacuates and temporarily clusters on nearby foliage. Most of the adults remain inactive in the cluster, while foragers bring in nectar and scout wasps search the s...

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Autores principales: Sonnentag, Peter J., Jeanne, Robert L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19611262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.009.1101