Parasitoids and Parasites of &lt;I&gt;Polistes metricus&lt;/I&gt; Say (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Northeast Georgia

Hodges, Amanda; Hodges, Greg S.; Espelie, Karl E.

doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2003)096[0061:papopm]2.0.co;2

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“…In the Lepidoptera, Chacoela (Pyralidae) are larval or pupal parasitoids of Polistes wasps (Hodges et al 2003), Sthenauge (Pyralidae) feed as ectoparasites of saturniid larvae, and Epipyropidae are parasitoids of hemipteran nymphs or lepidopteran larvae (Eggleton and Belshaw 1992). Mantispidae (Neuroptera) are ectoparasitoids of larvae and pupae of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, or Hymenoptera in soil, or egg sacs of spiders (Eggleton and Belshaw 1992).…”

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Parasitoid Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management

Heraty

2009

Insect Biodiversity

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Parasitoid Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management

Heraty

2009

Insect Biodiversity

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“…Only 2 of more than 600 wasps individually marked at a single field site in 1994 appeared the following year (Hunt and Dove, 2002). Colony mortality in P. metricus appears to be fairly steady throughout the colony cycle driven by random parasite and predator attacks (Hunt and Dove, 2002;Hodges et al, 2003), as is reported in other species of Polistes (Page et al, 1989;Clapperton and Dymock, 1997). Polistes metricus colonies thus appear to produce female offspring that are relatively equal in quality but variable in number depending on the amount of food the colony receives.…”

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Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

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Hunt

2004

Insect. Soc.

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A field population of Polistes metricus Say near St. Louis, Missouri was supplemented with dilute Apis mellifera honey and Trichoplusia ni caterpillars during the entire colony development period. Offspring were collected at two times to coincide with emergence of worker and reproductive broods. Food supplementation had no effect on nest size, the number of worker offspring, or the size of workers. Supplemented colonies did produce more females in August but female size was unaffected by supplementation. Supplementation had no effect on the number of males produced, but males were slightly larger on supplemented nests. We interpret these findings in the context of social insect life history theory.

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“…Another potential benefit of queen and colony obstinacy may be elevated vigilance 323 against nest parasites. Polistes metricus, as well as other Polistes species, are afflicted by a 324 taxonomically diverse array of colony parasites (A. C. Hodges, Hodges, & Espelie, 2003;325 Starr, 1976). For example, the most common nest parasite of P. metricus is the pyralid moth 326…”

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“…Ichneumonid wasps Pachysomoides fulvus and P. stupidus, and the Eulophid wasp Elasmus 329 polistis to name only a few (Amanda Coleen Hodges, 2002; A. C. Hodges et al, 2003;Nelson, 330 1968;Starr, 1976). These parasites generally lay their eggs in the cells of late-stage P. 331 metricus larvae before they cap their cells in preparation to pupate.…”

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Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony

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25The founding individuals of a new group or lineage are uniquely poised to have long-lasting 26 effects on their descendants. Here we explore how the behavioural traits of new 27 foundresses influence their task allocation strategies and the downstream collective 28 behaviour of their colonies. We collected individual paper wasp (Polistes metricus) queens 29 from the wild, and measured their boldness, aggressiveness, exploration, activity, and time 30 budgets in the laboratory. We then provided queens with food and nest materials and 31 waited for their workers to eclose. We subsequently tested for links between queen 32 behavioural traits (e.g., boldness, aggressiveness) and the collective aggressiveness of their 33 colonies, as estimated by the number of workers that responded to and stung a model 34 predator. We found that bolder queens (i.e., queens that were less likely to leave their nests 35 after repeated exposure to an agonistic stimulus) spent more time nest guarding, reared 36 more workers, and produced groups that were less responsive to a model predator. Thus, 37 there appears to be parent-offspring, or queen-worker, resemblance in the degree to which 38 individuals remain on their nests in different social contexts (solitary queen vs. queen + her 39 worker group). To our knowledge this represents the first study to explicitly test for links 40 between individual variation in foundress behavior, worker production, and inter-colony 41 collective behaviour; the results highlight the possibility that cross-contextual and trans-42 generational behavioural links could be a reasonably common and potentially important 43 phenomenon in complex societies. 44 45 46

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Parasitoids and Parasites of <I>Polistes metricus</I> Say (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Northeast Georgia

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Parasitoid Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management

Parasitoid Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management

Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony

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