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26 Cards in this Set
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What ant diggs in after shedding wings? |
Pogonomyrmex (seed harvester) |
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Who does claustral founding? |
Atta |
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Which ant has semi-claustral founding? |
Myrmecia regularis (Australian bulldog ant) |
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what wasps have enclosed or not enclosed? |
vespinae enclosed (tree or underground), Polistes and Mischocyttarus Polistinae not enclosed |
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1 or 2 foundress spindly thing to stop ants? |
Mischocyttarus (Polistinae) |
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Honey pot ant? |
Multiple-Queen-Founded Nests. Myrmecocystus mimicus, Arizona |
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WHo showed pattern of nests and number foundresses? |
Bartz and Holldobler 1982 |
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More than how many doesnt help much? (of Myrmecocystus mimicus) |
3 |
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what kind of advantage of multiple founding? |
Mutualistic advantage |
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which often have a few foundresses (wasp and bee) |
Polistes and Halictidae |
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who made diagram simplifying how queens can found? |
Oster and Wilson 1978 |
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example of budding? |
Formica (many queens - tolerate each other)h |
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how long hb tongue? |
5mm |
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how many workers leave in prime swarm hb? |
2/3 |
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when's swarming season, how many Q pupae in original nest, how far travel and how many know where going? |
April-June, 10-20, few hundred km, 1% |
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wasp swarm? |
Polistinae (Protopolybia - Brazil) |
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Other founding strategies? |
nest usurpation (steal nest) - common in Vespinae and Bombus, workerless parasites - take over other species nest (Vespula austriaca over Vespula rufa) va mandibles for fighting, temporary social parasites (enters nest to found her nest) |
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examples of annual colony |
Vespinae, Polistes, Bumble, Halictidae |
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examples of perennial colony |
ants, termites, hb, stingless bee, epiponini |
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who shows founder, ergonomic and reproductive stage? ant colony |
Oster and Wilson 1978 |
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name of american army ants? |
Eciton burchelli (large raid), Eciton hamatum (small raid) |
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two phases of eciton? |
Statary (eggs and pupae), Nomadic (larval stage - bivouac moves every day) |
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what is queen in statary phase? |
physogastric (swollen) |
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how far eciton go a day? |
over 100m |
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how many eciton when divide? |
half million or more |
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example 1 Q to 1 M |
bombus terrestris |
