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L'étude du développement des colonies dePolistes dominulus dans deux situations environnementales distinctes, caractérisées l'une par un accroissement progressif de la température et de la durée du jour (situation A: 5 colonies), l'autre par une diminution progressive de ces deux facteurs (situation B: 6 colonies), a mis en évidence au niveau des guêpiers deux configurations reproductrices.
La durée du cycle des colonies a été plus courte en situation B (4 à 5 mois) qu'en situation A (5 à 9 mois).
Parallèlement au raccourcissement du cycle reproducteur, on a observé, dans la situation B, une apparition plus précoce des femelles à vie longue (250–500 jours) et des mâles.
Concernant la production mâle, elle a résulté, dans la situation B, exclusivement d'œufs pondus avant la disparition des fondatrices, alors que, dans la situation A, la production mâle, plus tardive, a résulté en partie de la ponte des fondatrices, en partic de la ponte des ouvrières, après la disparition des reines.
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The development of colonies in the paper wasp,Polistes dominulus, was studied in two experimental situations: in the first, the temperature and the daytime were progressively increased (situation A: 5 colonies); and in the second, these two factors were progressively decreased (situation B: 6 colonies). These two experimental situations give rise to different types of reproductive patterns.
The duration of the annual cycle was found to be shorter with colonies raised under condition B (4–5 months) than with those raised under condition A (5–9 months).
In the colonies with a shortened cycle (situation B), males and long lived females (250–500 days) were found to emerge earlier than in those with a longer cycle.
In experimental situation B, the males emerged almost exclusively from eggs laid before the foundresses disappeared; whereas in the situation A, the male production occured later and the males were produced partly by the foundresses, and partly by the workers after the foundresses died.
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Mead, F., Pratte, M. & Gabouriaut, D. Influence d'une difference dans les conditions de temperature et de durée du jour sur le déroulement de la vie de la société chezPolistes dominulus Christ (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) élevé au laboratoire. Ins. Soc 37, 236–250 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02224051
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