Title: Intraspecific Defense: Advantage of Social Cooperation Among Paper Wasp Foundresses
Abstract:Foundress associations and high frequencies of conspecific nest usurpation are most common where densities of Polistes metricus are high. Here nest usurpation occurs primarily in single-foundress colo...Foundress associations and high frequencies of conspecific nest usurpation are most common where densities of Polistes metricus are high. Here nest usurpation occurs primarily in single-foundress colonies resulting in multiple-foundress colonies having significantly greater productivities than single-foundress colonies. This is not true at low densities. Conspecific pressures and not predation or parasitism provide an advantage to cooperating wasp foundresses in P. metricus.Read More
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-03-31
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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