Colony development, worker behavior and male production in orphan colonies of a Japanese paper wasp, <i>Polistes chinensis antennalis</i> Pérez (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Miyano, Shinya

doi:10.1007/bf02515460

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“…Foraging is an energetically costly task that reduces the opportunity of direct reproduction in social insects in general (Schmid-Hempel and Wolf 1988), and in Polistes wasps in 225 particular (Markiewicz and O'Donnell 2001). Thus, P. biglumis foundresses living in the Apennines had brood production patterns similar to those of other Polistes species, which live at lower altitude in warm climate conditions (e.g., Pardi 1942Pardi , 1946Miyano 1986). …”

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Geographic Variation in Air Temperature Leads to Intraspecific Variability in the Behavior and Productivity of a Eusocial Insect

2014

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The definitive version is available at: AbstractIn primitively eusocial insects, air temperature is the environmental factor that 30 primarily affects colony cycle. Several studies demonstrated interspecific differences in the adaptation of eusocial insects to local air temperature. Nevertheless, studies on intraspecific adaptations are rare. In this study, we investigate the influence of air temperature on local adaptations in behavior and colony productivity of Polistes biglumis foundresses living in warm and cold temperate zones. We hypothesized that foundresses 35 from warm temperate zones would show a higher activity level compared to those from cold temperate zones before brood emergence, based on differences in air temperature between the two zones. After brood emergence, we expected a reduced foundress activity level in the warm climate zone, due to workers' help. In contrast, foundresses living in the cold-climate zone, which do not produce workers, were expected to remain 40 active throughout the nesting season. We also hypothesized that colony productivity was higher in warm-climate colonies. As expected, warm-climate foundresses reduced their activity level after brood emergence and, with their relatively large number of workers, continued egg production throughout the nesting season. Further studies are necessary to assess if these intraspecific differences are attributable to phenotypic plasticity or 45 genetic divergence.

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Geographic Variation in Air Temperature Leads to Intraspecific Variability in the Behavior and Productivity of a Eusocial Insect

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“…Worker reproduction may take place under 2 different social situations, that is, in orphan colonies and in queenright colonies (Miyano 1986). Orphan colonies are those which have lost the queen and are maintained by workers (Rau 1929).…”

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Worker reproduction and related behavior in orphan colonies of a Japanese paper wasp,Polistes jadwigae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Miyano

1991

J. Ethol.

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--Worker reproduction and related behavior in 2 orphan colonies of Polistes jadwigae, one of which had been maintained by a queen and 5 artificially introduced alien workers, were observed. After the queen loss, a dominance hierarchy was established among workers, and several workers laid eggs without physical interference from other workers. Only males emerged from worker-laid eggs, however, a few new queens were produced from queen-laid eggs. Investment sex ratio of queenright ( = normal) colonies (0.27) fell between the 2 theoretical values, corresponding to worker control (0.20 or 0.18) and queen control (0.48 or 0.46) of the sex ratio, both being calculated by considering the excess of males produced in the orphan colonies.

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“…In addition, workers produced earlier in the colony cycle sometimes leave their natal colonies and found their own nests solitarily in the same season (7)(8)(9), replace the foundress queen (10), or even lay eggs in the presence of the queen (11). In an extreme example of plasticity in altruism, a fraction of first-brood females in the temperate halictid bee, Halictus rubicundus, do not become workers but instead disperse, enter early diapause, and reappear as nest foundresses near their natal sites the following year (12,13).…”

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Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Nonacs

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Many ''workers'' in north temperate colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes fuscatus disappear within a few days of eclosion. We provide evidence that these females are pursuing an alternative reproductive strategy, i.e., dispersing to overwinter and become nest foundresses the following spring, instead of helping to rear brood on their natal nests. A female is most likely to stay and help at the natal nest (i.e., least likely to disperse) when it is among the first workers to emerge and when it emerges on a nest with more pupae (even though worker-brood relatedness tends to be lower in such colonies). The latter cause may result from the fact that pupae-laden nests are especially likely to survive, and thus any direct or indirect reproductive payoffs for staying and working are less likely to be lost. Disappearing females are significantly smaller than predicted if dispersal tendency was independent of body size (emergence order-controlled), suggesting that the females likely to be most effective at challenging for reproductive rights within the natal colony (i.e., the largest females) are also most likely to stay. Thus, early dispersal is conditional on a female's emergence order, the maturity of its natal nest, and its body size. Finally, we present evidence that foundresses may actively limit the sizes of first-emerging females, perhaps to decrease the probability that the latter can effectively challenge foundresses for reproductive rights. The degree to which foundresses limit the size of first-emerging females accords well with the predictions of the theory of staying incentives.

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Colony development, worker behavior and male production in orphan colonies of a Japanese paper wasp, Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Cited by 37 publications

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Geographic Variation in Air Temperature Leads to Intraspecific Variability in the Behavior and Productivity of a Eusocial Insect

Geographic Variation in Air Temperature Leads to Intraspecific Variability in the Behavior and Productivity of a Eusocial Insect

Worker reproduction and related behavior in orphan colonies of a Japanese paper wasp,Polistes jadwigae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Dispersal of first “workers” in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

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