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how many males Asian hb mate? |
50-100 |
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species with 1 queen? |
honey, yellow jacket, bumble |
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vespinae and polistinae brood? |
prog provisioning and spin cocoon which seals |
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vespinae larvae?
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large salivary glands, convert insect protein in to sugars (chemical processing) (VAAM) |
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like Oecophylla weaver ants? and how big nest? |
Camponotus senex, 1 m across |
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dampwood termite/ |
zootermopsis nevadensis |
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when are males reared? |
spring and summer |
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how large is small swarm hb? |
5000 |
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severs penis? Also lost morph queen caste? |
Dinoponera quadriceps (10 colony) |
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male work? and why? |
some stingless bee may secrete wax, bumble bee may help incubate brood. Subsocial hymenopteran males not domesticated |
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male reproductive interest? |
few males join swarm Apis mellifera, Cardiocondyla ants worker-like males with large mandibles (no wings fight each other) |
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Eusociality effects males? |
swarming/colony fission Dinoponera quadriceps only 1 need so put everything in. |
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Dorylus? |
wilverthi |
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percentage comb area drone cells, duration from egg to adult? |
20% 24 days |
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percentage comb area worker cells and duration from egg to adult |
80% 21 days |
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How many queen cells in swarm season? duration egg to adult? |
10-30, 16 days (acorn shaped) |
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how become queen? |
royal jelly, stimulates midgut, corpora allata mediated release of juvenile hormone on day 3, synthesis queen-specific proteins, queen |
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What genus is determined in egg stage? |
Pheidole (melipona larva can choose themselves) |
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examples stage 1 loss worker reproductive potential |
queenless ponerinae, stenogastrinae, polistinae, microstigmus, halictidae, allodapini |
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stage 2 loss worker reproductive potential |
some ponerinae, some polistinae, some allodapini |
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stage 3 loss worker reproductive potential |
most species ant, vespinae, most eusocial apidae |
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stage 4 worker reproductive potential |
Atta, Monomorium, no wasps, a few meliponinae |
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percentage workers with active ovaries in queen/less in hb |
0.1% 50% |
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how many eggs can Dorylus lay (African army ant) |
20000 |
