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  • 1
    ISSN: 1420-9098
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Natural societies ofPlagiolepis pygmaea were collected at the end of the winter period. Usually, they were strongly polygynous (17 queens per society in average) All the wingless queens were inseminated and could lay eggs. The weight of these queens is correlated: - negatively with their number in the societies; - positively with the number of nurse workers; - positively with their ovary development. The queens' fecundity has been studied in monogynous condition by counting the number of eggs laid during 5 weeks at the end of the winter period. Several correlations were revealed: - a positive one between the queen's fecundity and their weight; - a positive one between the queen's fecundity and their aggregative power on their workers; - a negative one between the queen's fecundity and their number in their native society.
    Notes: Resume Les sociétés naturelles dePlagiolepis pygmaea récoltées à la fin de l'hivernage sont habituellement fortement polygynes (en moyenne 17 reines par société). Toutes les reines désailées sont inséminées et participent à la ponte. Ces reines présentent certaines particularités en relation avec les caractéristiques démographiques des sociétés; en particulier, leur poids montre une corrélation: - négative avec leur nombre dans la société; - positive avec le nombre d'ouvrières nourrices; - positive avec le développement de leurs ovaires. La fécondité des reines a été étudiée en condition expérimentale monogyne en dénombrant les œufs pondus pendant 5 semaines à la fin de l'hivernage. On met en évidence plusieurs corrélations: - positive entre la fécondité et le poids des reines; - positive entre la fécondité et le pouvoir agrégatif des reines sur leurs ouvrières; - négative entre la fécondité et le degré de polygynie de la société d'origine.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume La fourmi primitiveAneuretus simoni a été recherchée au Sri Lanka dans les forêts de Kandy, Matale, Peradeniya, Gilimale et Ratnapura. Des sociétés de l'espèce ont pu être trouvées dans les seules forêts humides de Gilimale. La répartition de cette fourmi semble localisée aux zones d'altitudes supérieures à 450 m recevant de 2 à 5 mètres d'eau par an. Au total, 33 sociétés ont pu être récoltées, dont plusieurs avec des reines. Les densités des sociétés étaient respectivement de 0.017, 0.023 et 0.033 soc/m2 dans les 3 sites étudiés. Nous avons dénombré chezA. simoni une moyenne de 65 ouvrières minor et une ou plusieurs reines par société. Les ouvrières major ne représentent que 2 à 3 % des effectifs. Les sexués apparaissent du milieu du mois de juillet au mois d'août. La société semble polycalique. Dans leur habitat habituel, les ouvrières sont omnivores. Elles consomment des petits insectes et des hydrates de carbone prélevés sur des fruits pourrissants. Un système de pistes de récoltes est utilisé dans l'exploitation de sources de nourriture importantes. Les ouvrières d'A. simoni évitent typiquement tout contact avec celles de fourmis sympatriques commePheidole, Paratrechina, Tetramorium, Odontomachus etMonomorium. En cas de rencontre avec des ouvrières étrangères de la même espèce, il en résulte des phénomènes d'agression. Ceci suggère que la reconnaissance des congénères d'une même société et peut être l'existence d'un comportement territorial intraspécifique semblent bien développés.
    Notes: Summary A search forAneuretus simoni was carried out in forested regions near Kandy, Matale, Peradeniya, Gilimale, Ratnapura, and Lagumba, Sri Lanka. Colonies were found only in the humid forests of the Gilimale area. The distribution ofA. simoni appears to be correlated with rainfall (200–500 cm/year) and geographic elevation (above 450 meters). A total of 33 queenright and queenless nests were collected. Nest density was 0.017, 0.023, and 0.033 colonies/m2, respectively, in three study plots. Aneuretus colonies contain on average more than one queen and approximately 65 minor workers. Major workers comprise only two to three percent of the colony population. Sexuals are found in nests from mid-July to August. Colonies appear to be polydomous. A. simoni workers observed in the field showed generalized foraging habits. They preyed upon small insects and collected carbohydrate from rotting fruit. Trail systems were used in exploitation of large food sources. A. simoni workers typically avoid contact with workers of sympatric ant genera such asPheidole, Paratrechina, Tetramorium, Odontomachus, andMonomorium. When alien conspecifics are encountered, aggression results, indicating that nestmate recognition and perhaps intraspecific territoriality is well developed.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 209-212 
    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Pimelic and azelaic acids are major constituants of the survivone which induces a prolongation of life in isolated bees. Their action is dependent of age of bees and of the season; azelaic acid is more efficient in summer and winter; pimelic acid in spring.
    Notes: Resume Les acides azélaïque et pimélique sont des constituants majeurs de la survivone, phéromone de survie les abeilles isolées. Leur action dépend de la saison, l'acide azélaïque étant plus efficace sur la survie des abeilles d'été et d'hiver, et l'acide pimélique sur la survie des abeilles de printemps.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 118-131 
    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume 1. La distribution des individus de groupes normaux deMyrmica rubra a été étudiée dans des nids artificiels formés d'une seule rangée de cellules. Une couche d'ouvrières recouvre les reines et le couvain, ménageant cependant une région périphérique où l'on ne trouve que des ouvrières dont le rôle est de défendre l'entrée et de préparer les proies pour la consommation. La région périphérique est particulièrement bien représentée, près de l'entrée. Lorsque le paquet d'œufs grossit, l'enveloppe d'ouvrières se dissocie et découvre les larves; lorsque ces dernières sont prêtes à se nymphoser, les ouvrières les ramènent vers le centre où se trouvent le couvain non alimenté et les reines. 2. La sociabilité des reines est très variable. Certaines restent seules la plupart du temps alors que d'autres sont rarement solitaires et se regroupent avec d'autres reines. Certaines des reines sociables peuvent être très attentives au choix de leurs compagnes alors que d'autres sont tout à fait indifférentes à leur voisinage. Toutes les reines pondent des œufs en nombre variable sans rapport avec leur degré de sociabilité.
    Notes: Summary 1. The form of normal groups ofMyrmica rubra has been studied in artificial nests consisting of a single tier of cells. An envelope of workers spreads out and covers the queens and brood leaving a cortex composed only of workers that functions as a defensive zone and a zone in which prey are prepared for ingestion. The cortex is especially well developed near the entrance. As the egg cluster grows, it breaks up, often with worker help and releases larvae; when these are ready to pupate the workers take them back into the central core of non-feeding brood and queens. 2. The sociability of queens varies from those that are often alone, to those that are rarely alone and spend most of their time with other queens. Sociable queens may be very specific in the individuals they associate with or very indifferent to their companions. All the queens lay eggs in variable numbers but the quantity is not related to their sociability.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Auf der Insel Negros, Philippinen, wurde ein aus Bambus gebautes Bauernhaus entdeckt, das mindestens 84 Kolonien von stachellosen Bienen beherbergte, und zwar der beiden ArtenTrigona (Tetragonula) fuscobalteata undT. (Tetragonula) sapiens in einem Verhältnis von ungefähr 3∶1. Die Nester waren in Bambussegmenten, je mit einem Rauminhalt von 0,7–3,0 1. Die Neststruktur entspricht generell dem Typus der Unterfamilie. Die Flugröhre ist einfach und nicht besonders lang. Die Röhrenöffnung ist beiT. sapiens länger und enger als beiT. fuscobalteata, obwohlT. sapiens einen breiteren Kopf besitzt. Die Brutzellen sind nicht in Waben angeordnet, sondern bilden traubenförmige Haufen. Sie sind auch nicht von einem Involucrum umgegeben. Es gibt Hinweise, daß stachellosen Bienen in trockenen Gebieten der Philippinen häufiger vorkommen.
    Notes: Summary A bamboo farmhouse on Negros island, Philippines harbored at least 84 colonies ofTrigona (Tetragonula) fuscobalteata andT. (Tetragonula) sapiens in a ratio of about 3∶1. Nests were in bamboo stem cavities of 0.7–3.0 1 volume. In neither species does The nest show specialized features relative to the subfamily. The entrance tube is simple and of medium length. The tube aperture is longer and narrower inT. sapiens thanT. fuscobalteata, although the former species has a greater head-width. Brood-cells are arranged in clusters, not in organized combs, and are not surrounded by an involucrum. p There is some indication that within the Philippines stingless bees are more abundant in drier areas.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 118-130 
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume L'influence de la taille des ouvrières et du comportement coopératif sur l'activité de récolte a été analysé chez 4 fourmis communes de prairie de la zone tempérée nordaméricaine:Lasius neoniger, Formica schaufussi, Myrmica americana, etMonomorium minimum. Les niches de ces espèces se recouvrent au niveau de la taille de leurs proies (arthropodes) et de leur activité temporelle de récolte. Les arthropodes sont ramenés par des fourrageuses solitaires ou par des groupes d'ouvrières qui coopèrent. Les espèces diffèrent par les proportions de proies ramenées suivant l'une ou l'autre méthode. Dans le cas du transport solitaire, la taille des proies est corrélée à celle des fourrageuses, mais cette corrélation disparaît dans le cas du transport coopératif. Enfin, il est discuté les différentes stratégies sociales de fourragement et l'évolution de la taille des ouvrières.
    Notes: Summary The common North Temperate open-field antsLasius neoniger, Formica schaufussi, Myrmica americana, andMonomorium minimum overlap temporally in foraging activity as well as in the sizes of arthropod prey in their diets. Arthropod prey were taken by both individual workers and cooperative worker groups, and species differed in the proportion of prey in the diet retrieved by each method. Although prey size was significantly correlated with worker size for individually retrieved prey, when cooperative foraging was considered worker size did not serve as a consistent predictor of prey choice. Contrasting social strategies of foraging and the evolution of worker body size differences are discussed.
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    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume L'électrophorèse en gel d'amidon de 8 enzymes codées par différents loci a permis de déduire, chez l'Abeille primitivement eusocialeDialictus zephyrus, les génotypes de 31 fondatrices, apparemment solitaires, et de leur couvain de première génération. 13% des sociétés renfermaient une descendance provenant de plus d'une femelle et 23% la descendance soit de plus d'une femelle, soit d'une seule femelle fécondée à deux reprises. Ainsi, un total de 36% des sociétés apparemment fondées par une femelle unique contenaient des descendants de première génération qui ne pouvaient provenir d'une femelle, fécondée une fois pour toutes.
    Notes: Summary Genotypes for 31 apparent, single foundresses and their first generation brood in the primitively eusocial sweat beeDialictus zephyrus were inferred from starch-gel electrophoresis of 8 enzyme coding loci. Thirteen percent of the colonies contained the progeny of more than one female, and an additional twenty-three percent contained the progeny of either more than one female or a single, twice-mated female. Thus a total of thirty-six percent of colonies apparently founded by a single female contained first generation brood which were not the progeny of one, singly-mated female.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 229-235 
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Les ouvriers affamés deCoptotermes formosanus prennent l'initiative des échanges trophallactiques avec les soldats, quel que soit l'état nutritionnel de ceux-ci. Les soldats affamés ne sollicitent pas de nourriture des ouvriers, et ne sont pas nourris par eux quand ces ouvriers sont alimentés préalablement. Les résultats de laboratoire suggèrent que l'échange ouvrier-soldat est un comportement toujours initié par l'ouvrier et indépendant de létat nutrionnel du soldat.
    Notes: Summary Starved workers of the Formosan subterranean termite,Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, initiated trophallactic exchanges with soldiers regardless of soldier nutritional status. Starved soldiers did not solicit food from workers and were not fed when workers had been fed previously. The laboratory results suggest that worker-soldier trophallactic exchange is a worker-initiated behavior and essentially independent of the nutritional state of the soldier.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 252-260 
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Geschlechtsphromone wurden bei sechs japanischenVespa-Arten in Laborversuchen nachgewiesen, wobei sowohl intakte Königinnen wie auch deren Atherextrakte getestet wurden. Eine deutliche interspezifische Wirksamkeit der Pheromone wurde bei allen paarweisen Kombinationen zwischen fünf der sechs sympatrischen rten gefunden, und zwar beiV. analis, V. mandarina, V. tropica, V. simillima xanthoptera undV. crabro.
    Notes: Summary The presence of sex pheromones in six Japanese species of the genusVespa was demonstrated by laboratory assyas using intact queens and their ether extracts. Clear interspecific cross-activities of the pheromones was found for all pairwise combinations between five of the six sympatric species,V. analis, V. mandarinia, V. tropica, V. simillima xanthoptera andV. crabro.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 136-141 
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Afin de déterminer le rôle de l'expérience sociale précoce sur l'ontogenèse de la reconnaissance des cocons par une espèce esclave de fourmi, des expériences de laboratoire ont été réalisées surFormica cunicularia, une espèce communément esclave deFormica sanguinea. Dans un test de choix, des ouvrières adultes deF. cunicularia provenant d'une colonie pure soignèrent uniquement des cocons homospécifiques, tandis qu'elles détruisirent les cocons hétérospécifiques, non familiers (F. sanguinea etF. lugubris). Après quoi, 3 groupes de colonies artificielles ont été constitués avec de jeunes ouvrières deF. cunicularia de même âge, retirées expérimentalement de leurs cocons. Après une période d'entraînement de quinze jours avec des cocons homospécifiques (groupe C), des cocons deF. sanguinea (groupe T), on en l'absence de tout cocon (groupe I), ces ouvrières furent soumises à un test de choix entre des cocons deF. cunicularia et deF. sanguinea. Le choix des ouvrières des groupes C et T fut toujours en faveur des cocons auxquels elles avaient été familiarisées au cours de la période d'entraînement. En outre, la privation des cocons rompit la discrimination des cocons et l'aptitude aux soins des fourmis du groupe I. Sur la base de ces données et de celles que nous avons obtenues récemment sur la reconnaissance des partenaires du nid chez la même espèce, nous pouvons soutenir que l'expérience sociale suivant immédiatement l'éclosion chez l'ouvrière deF. cunicularia peut expliquer son esclavage dans la nature et, par conséquent, l'altruisme interspécifique de cet hôte à l'égard de son parasite.
    Notes: Summary In order to determine the role of early social experience on the ontogeny of cocoon recognition by a slave-ant species, laboratory experiments were carried out inFormica cunicularia, a common slave ofFormica sanguinea. In a choice-test, adultF. cunicularia workers coming from a pure colony tended only the homospecific cocoons, whereas destroyed the heterospecific unfamiliar ones (F. sanguinea andF. lugubris). Subsequently, 3 groups of artificial colonies were set up with callowF. cunicularia workers of the same age experimentally removed from their cocoons. After a 15-day training period with homospecific cocoons (group C),F. sanguinea cocoons (group T), or in absence of any cocoons (group I), these workers were given a choice-test betweenF. cunicularia andF. sanguinea cocoons. The choice of the workers belonging to groups C and T was always directed towards the cocoons with which workers had become familiar during the training period. Moreover, early deprivation of cocoons disrupted the cocoon discrimination and care ability of ants belonging to group I. On the basis of these data and those recently obtained by us on nestmate recognition in the same species, we can assume that social experience immediately following eclosion ofF. cunicularia workers can fully explain their enslavement in nature and, therefore, the interspecific altruism of this host species towards the parasite.
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  • 11
    ISSN: 1420-9098
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Les populations des nids croissent rapidement dans la phase juvénile, puis deviennent stables à maturité. Les relations entre les paramètres de la population, et les poids de la reine et des meules à champignons, sont approximativement linéaires pour tous les composants, les soldats et les présoldats exceptés. Les relations entre les paramètres des nids et leurs populations sont approximativement linéaires. Par conséquent, on peut estimer les populations des termites à partir des études de ces paramètres et densités de nids.
    Notes: Summary Nest populations grow rapidly while the nest is young, then stabilise to a fairly constant level in maturity. Relationships between population parameters, queen's weight and fungus comb weight are all approximately linear, with the exception of soldier and presoldiers numbers. Relationships between mound parameters and nest population are approximately linear, so that data from surveys of mound size and density can be used to estimate termite populations.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 194-203 
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    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Resume La sex-ratio de l'investissement reproductif (SRI) ou la fréquence de l'investissement mâle (IFS) ont été évaluées au niveau de la population et des colonies dans des populations des fourmisL. alienus, L. niger et leurs hybrides. Une plus grande similarité a été notée entre l'IFS correspondant àL. alienus et aux hybrides qu'entre ces derniers et l'IFS deL. niger. Ceci a été étudié en rapport avec la compatibilkités de cette information avec des prédictions reposant sur la caste et le conflit intra- (dans le cas des ouvrières) et inter-castes comme déterminants de IF. Une évaluation de la relation des ouvrières entre elles à l'inteérieur d'une même colonie dans une population de fourmisL. alienus a été significativement supérieure à zéro. Bien qu'étant en accord avec la structure monogyne attribuée à cette espèce les limites de confiance au seuil de 95% du degré de relation pourrait aussi correspondre à un certain degré de polygynie et/ou de fécondation multiple.
    Notes: Summary The sex ratio of investment (SRI) or male investment frequencies (IFs) were estimated at the population and colony level in populations ofL. alienus, L. niger and their hybrids. More simlarity betweenL. alienus IFs and the hybrid IFs than between compatibility of these data with predictions dependent on the caste or intra (in the instance of workers) and inter caste conflict as determinants of the IF. An estimate of intra colonial, worker relatedness in aL. alienus population was significantly greater than zero. Whilst being consistent with the monogynous structure attributed to this species the 95% confidence limits of the relatedness value would also accommodate a degree of polygyny and/or multipe mating.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 181-193 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume La présence simultanée de plusieurs reines d'abeilles vierges, hors de leurs cellules, est empêchée, dans la période précédant l'essaimage, par un retar de l'émergence de toutes les reines, sauf une. De cette manière le combat entre reines est évité. Les processus responsables de ce retard ont été étudiés. La transmission du «tooting», son produit par la reine vierge hors de la cellule, a été analysée. Des reines prêtes à émerger percent l'extrémité inférieure de leur cellule. Chez des reines isolées cette activité a été interrompue par l'émission du «tooting» enregistré. Par conséquent leur sortie a été retardée de plusieurs heures. En outre, si les cellules royales étaient exposées au «tooting» au sein d'une ruche d'observation, l'émergence des reines était beaucoup plus retardée, parce que, dans ce cas, les ouvrières enferment les reines dans leur cellule. Le rôle des danses vibrantes dans cet enfermement, comportement souvent observé sur des cellules de reines prêtes à sortir, a été recherché, sans pourvoir être prouvé. On a constaté qu'un élément important du comportement des ouvrières au cours de l'enfermement était la fermeture des petits trous percés par la reine dans le bout de la cellule. Les incisions dans les cellules royales étaient refermées à la même vitesse avant et après la période de transmission du «tooting». La fermeture n'est donc pas influencée par le «tooting». On considère que le «tooting» et la fermeture des cellules par des ouvrières ne peuvent pas séparément retarder longuement la sortie des reines. Leur présence combinée est essentielle: le «tooting» inhibe l'activité des reines d'une manière suffisante pour que les ouvrières puissent empêcher leur sortie pendant quelques jours.
    Notes: Summary In honey bees the simultaneous presence of several emerged virgin queens in the period preceding afterswarming, is prevented by a delay of emergence of all queens but one. It this way fighting between queens is avoided. The processes responsible for this delay were studied. The significance of the tooting sounds produced by the emerged virgin queen was examined. Queens ready to emerge cut a cap of their cells. In isolated queens this activity was interrupted by replay of recorded tooting. Consequently their emergence was delayed for several hours. If, however, queen cells in observation hives were exposed to tooting, the emergence of queens was much more delayed, because in this situation worker bees confine the queens in their cells. The confining effect of vibratory dances, a worker behaviour often observed on cells with queens ready to emerge, was explored, but could not be demonstrated. An important element of worker behaviour, effectuating confinement, appeared to be the sealing of cuts made by the enclosed queens in their cell caps. Incisions in queen cells were closed at the same rate before and after a 24 h period of transmission of tooting, so sealing is not influenced by the presence of tooting. It is argued that separately tooting and sealing by workers cannot cause a long term delay of emergence of queens. Their combined presence is essential: tooting inhibits the activity of queens sufficiently to enable the workers to obstruct their emergence for days.
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    Insectes sociaux 34 (1987), S. 143-164 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die AmeisePrenolepis imparis Say ist in Nord-Florida (USA) nur im Winter an der Erdoberfläche aktiv. Das Sammeln von Nahrung beginnt im November und endet im März oder Anfang April; danach verschließen die Arbeiterinnen das Nest bis zum November. Während der Periode des Nahrungssammelns wird die Gaster der Arbeiterinnen enorm dick, so daß das Gewicht dieser Arbeiterinnen sich verdoppelt oder verdreifacht. Die Gewichtszunahme wird durch den stark entwickelten Fettkörper verursacht und nicht durch die Füllung des Kropfes, wie man früher glaubte. Die Kolonie zieht bis Ende August oder Anfang September keine Brut auf, erst dann beginnen sich die Ovarien der Königin zu entwickeln und sie legt Eier. Diese Brut wird wahrscheinlich mit einem Sekret ernährt, für das die Energiespeicher der dicken Arbeiterinnen mobilisiert werden. Wenn die Nester im November wieder geöffnet werden, dann besteht der größte Teil der diesjährigen Brut aus jungen Arbeiterinnen oder Geschlechtstieren. Die Arbeiterinnen des Vorjahrs sind wieder mager, da sie ihre Fettkörperreserven an die Larven verfüttert haben. Diese alten Arbeiterinnen beginnen dann, Nahrung zu sammeln, während die jungen Arbeiterinnen für das nächste Jahr gemästet werden. Die Lebensdauer einer Arbeiterin beträgt also ein oder zwei Jahre oder mehr. Die meisten Nester sind polygyn, alle Königinnen sind fertil, doch legen sie vermutlich unterschiedlich viele Eier. Die Koloniegründung erfolgt wahrscheinlich pleometrotisch. Die Nester befinden sich sehr tief im Boden, sie reichen bis zu einer Tiefe von 2.5 m bis 3.6 m. Die Kammern haben einen waagerechten Boden und eine leicht gewölbte Decke, sie sind durch einen einzigen senkrechten Gang miteinander verbunden. Die Gesamtfläche der Kammern ist mit der Arbeiterinnenzahl korreliert. Die Nester werden vergrößert, indem sowohl neue Kammern gebaut als auch vorhandene Kammern erweitert werden. Wenn Kammern vergrößert werden, dann wird die ursprüngliche Kreisform pseudopodienartig ausgelappt. Es wurden keine Kammern in einer geringeren Tiefe als 60 cm gefunden, die meisten Kammern befanden sich in der unteren Hälfte dieser tiefen Nester, wodurch im größten Teil der Nester das ganze Jahr über eine Temperatur zwischen 16° und 24° C herrscht. Die 9 ausgegrabenen Nester enthielten zwischen 560 und über 10.000 Arbeiterinnen. Mit drei voneinander unabhängigen Bestimmungen der jährlichen Zunahme der Arbeiterinnenzahl wurde das Alter des größten Kolonie auf 7 bis 9 Jahre geschätzt. Die Arbeiterinnen waren in den Nestern spezifisch verteilt. Junge, gemästete Arbeiterinnen wurden in den tieferen Kammern gefunden, während sich die Arbeiterinnen des Vorjahrs, die jetzt Sammlerinnen waren, häufiger in der Nähe der Oberfläche aufhielten. Es wird diskutiert, daß die Lebensweise dieser kryophilen Ameise und speziell das Nahrungssammeln während der kalten Jahreszeit die Konkurrenz mit anderen Ameisen mindert.
    Notes: Summary In north Florida (USA), foraging and above-ground activity of the antPrenolepis imparis Say begins in November and ends in March or early April when the workers seal the nest until the following November. During this winter foraging period, workers' gasters become enormously corpulent through deposition of fat, doubling to tripling worker lean weight. The colony remains reproductively inactive until late August or early September when the queen's ovaries develop and she lays eggs. The single pulse of brood is probably reared on material derived from the corpulent workers. When the workers reopen the nests in November, most of the brood are callow workers or sexuals and all of the previous year's workers are again lean, their nutrient stores having been converted to new workers. The old workers become foragers while the callows become corpulent for the next year. Workers thus live between 1 and 2 (or more) years. Most nests are polygynous, and all queens contribute to the egg pool, though probably not equally. The nests are 2.5 to 3.6 meters deep and consist of horizontal-floored, slightly domed chambers connected by a single vertical tunnel. As the worker population grows, total chamber floor area is increased by adding more chambers and by enlarging chambers, changing their shape from simple, nearly circular to lobed, ‘pseudopodial’ shapes. No chambers were found less than 60 cm below the ground surface, and most were in the bottom half of these deep nests, keeping most of the nest between 16 and 24° C, year-round. Among the 9 colonies sampled, the number of workers varied from 560 to over 10,000. An incipient colony contained 33 nanitic workers and a single queen. Using the annual increase in worker population, the largest colonies were estimated to be 7 to 9 years old. Young, replete workers were found in the deeper chambers, while the previous years' workers (now foragers) were more abundant near the surface. The peculiar life cycle of this winter-active ant is discussed as an avoidance of competition with other ants by foraging during the cold season.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 321-324 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Teleutomyrmex schneideri, Anergates atratulus, Epimyrma stumperi etLeptothorax goesswaldi ont été trouvées aux alentours de Briançon, France. On indique les localités et donne quelques informations concernant la biologie de ces espèces. La nécessité d'une protection des habitats de ces fourmisrares est discutée.
    Notes: Summary Teleutomyrmex schneideri, Anergates atratulus, Epimyrma stumperi, andLeptothorax goesswaldi have been found in the surroundings of Briançon, France. The localities are indicated and some information on the biology of these species is provided. The need for protection of the habitats of these rare ants is discussed.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 313-320 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Les nids deCamponotus detritus sont des structures simples, creusées parmi les racines de la végétation pérenne des dunes du désert de Namibie. Ils comprennent une série de tunnels et de chambres de 100–400 mm de profondeur, souvent tapissés avec des détritus. On ne trouve pas de «chambre royale» ou de réserves de nourriture. Le couvain se trouvait d'un bout à l'autre du nid. Les températures des nids variaient considérablement. Les températures moyennes des nids étaient d'environ 32°C en été et 20–23°C en hiver. Le nombre d'ouvrières par nid variait de 218 à 16 000 avec une moyenne de 3 404±570. Chaque colonie comprenait un à quatre nids. Seulement un nid par colonie avait des reines. Le développement des colonies et le changement de localisation des nids avaient lieu fréquemment.
    Notes: Summary Camponotus detritus nests are simple structures excavated among the roots of perennial vegetation in the sand dunes of the Namib Desert. They comprise a series of tunnels and chambers 100–400 mm deep, often lined with detritus. No “royal chamber” or food stores were found. Brood was found throughout the nest, throughout the year. Nest temperatures varied considerably. Mean nest temperatures were about 32°C in summer and 20–23°C in winter. The number of workers per nest varied from 218 to 16,000 with a mean and standard error of 3,404±570. Each colony comprised one to four nests. Only one nest per colony housed queens. Colony expansion and nest relocation occurred frequently.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 329-330 
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 331-334 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Dieser Bericht enthält grundlegende Daten zur Variationstreite der Form von Erdhügel bei zwei häufig verkommenden Termitenarten der westafrikanischer Savanne,T. geminatus undC. curtatus.
    Notes: Summary This paper reports basic data on the variation in mound shape of two common species of west african savanna termites,T. geminatus andC. curtatus.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary We have studied the individual fecundity of queens belonging to a polygynous ant species reared in digynous conditions. Two major results appear: - the queen's individual fecundity, quantified during 5 weeks, is lower when queens are reared in digynous conditions than in monogynous conditions. The queens in digynous conditions put on less weight and the fecundity decreases. - when the two queens of an artificial digynous culture have the same physiological characters (equal weight), they lay the same number of eggs. So, inPlagiolepis pygmaea, there is neither functional monogyny nor physiological hierarchy. We could explain the decrease of the individual fecundity of the digynous queens by two hypothesis: the sharing of food between queens and the reciprocal production of queen pheromones. The acuteness of these two hypothesis inPlagiolepi is discussed.
    Notes: Resume Ce travail a pour but d'étudier la fécondité des reines d'une espèce polygyne dans un cas simplifié, celui de la digynie. Deux résultats apparaissent: - la fécondité individuelle des reines établie sur cinq semaines de ponte en condition de digynie est très diminuée par rapport à celle des reines élevées en condition monogyne. Cette baisse de fécondité est liée à une moins bonne prise de poids des reines en situation digyne; - lorsque deux reines en situation de digynie présentent au début de l'expérience des caractères physiologiques voisins (poids égal), elles émettent des quantités comparables d'œufs; il n'y a donc pas de monogynie fonctionnelle chezPlagiolepis pygmaea, ni de hiérarchie physiologique. Deux mécanismes pourraient expliquer la baisse de fécondité individuelle dans le cas de la digynie: le partage de la nourriture entre les reines et l'émission réciproque de substances phéromonales royales tendant à diminuer la ponte de l'autre reine. Leur efficacité dans le cas desPlagiolepis est discutée.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Nous décrivons quantitativement l'organisation sociale chezAneuretus simoni avec un éthogramme social. La majorité des comportements des reines et des petites et grandes ouvrières est semblable à ceux des espèces de fourmis des sous-familles supérieures. L'analyse de Fagen-Goldman des fréquences des comportements montre que le répertoire observé était complet. Les tailles des répertoires étaient 5 comportements (reine), 14 comportements (grandes ouvrières), 28 comportements (petites ouvrières jeunes), et 31 comportements (petites ouvrières mûres). Ces tailles de répertoires sont comparables à celles d'autres espèces de fourmis. Les grandes ouvrières, dont on trouve seulement moins de deux en moyenne par colonie, ne montrent pas de comportements de soins envers les larves. Elles ne montrent pas de comportements défensifs. Les ouvrières jeunes montrent les comportements envers la reine, les larves, et aussi le comportement de récolte. Une comparaison de l'organisation sociale chezAneuretus simoni avec celle d'autres espèces primitives montre que le comportement social est semblable à celui des dolichodérines.
    Notes: Summary Social behavior inAneuretus simoni is quantitatively described in a social ethogram. The majority of acts exhibited by queens and minor and major workers are typical behaviors observed in species of the higher subfamilies of ants. A Fagen-Goldman analysis of the frequency of behavioral acts indicated that the observed repertory was complete. Observed repertory sizes were 5 acts (the queen), 14 acts (major workers), 28 acts (callow minor workers) and 31 acts (mature minor workers). These repertory sizes are comparable to those observed in other ant species. Major workers, which average less than two in number per colony, do not show brood care. Majors were also never observed to participate in colony defense. The behavioral repertory of callow minor workers includes queen-related acts, brood care, and foraging. A comparison of social organization inA. simoni and other so-called primitive and advanced species indicates that social behavior is very similar to that of dolichoderine species.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Foragers (huntresses) of the predaceous antSmithistruma truncatidens develop behaviorally from guard ants, which in turn originate from one or the other of two pathways: some serve first as nurses, others become directly guards. These stages behave differently towards the principal preys (Isotomid collembolans), as follows: flight or no reaction in young individuals; avoidance or backward movement in nurses; direct attack followed by stinging in guards; pause followed by approach and antennating, then seizure by appendage and stinging in huntress workers. Under experimental conditions, huntress workers acquire pausing behavior generally between the 16th and the 19th day after their first going outside the nest.
    Notes: Resume Une étude sur le polyéthisme montre que chezS. truncatidens les ouvrières pourvoyeuses sont issues des gardiennes ayant elles-mêmes une double ascendance. Une partie provient d'ouvrières inactives, l'autre, de nourrices. Lorsqu'on place des ouvrières des différents status sociaux en présence de proies essentielles (Collemboles Isotomidae) nous observons les réactions suivantes: fuite ou absence de réaction chez les néonates, évitement ou recul chez les nourrices, attaque directe et piqûre chez les gardiennes et immobilisations (arrêt) suivie d'une approche lente et d'une palpation antennaire bien marquée précédant la saisie d'un appendice et la piqûre chez les pourvoyeuses. L'acquisition de la phase d'arrêt chez les pourvoyeuses dans les conditions de nos expériences a lieu le plus souvent entre le 16e et le 19e jour suivant la première sortie.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Ants of the genusAphaenogaster (A. senilis, A. subterranea) do not engage in the usual exchange of foodstuff from mouth to mouth, but employ a complex method for provisioning of their colony. Workers carry to the nest various objects imbibed or coated with liquid sugar or body fluid from crushed insects. In the nest, other workers lick the food on the objects. The foragers are capable of placing these intermediary objects on the liquid food supply before carrying them away. They can thus be said to use them as “tools” in the conventional ethological acception.
    Notes: Resume Les fourmis du genreAphaenogaster, qui ne pratiquent pas le transfert de substances de bouche à bouche, utilisent une méthode complexe pour assurer l'approvisionnement de la société. Elles transportent jusqu'au nid des matériaux divers, imbibés ou enrobés de liquides sucrés ou de sucs animaux, qui sont ensuite léchés par les ouvrières restées dans le nid. Les récolteuses sont capables, avant ces prélèvements, d'apporter et de déposer des matériaux sur les sources de nourriture liquide offerte. Cette séquence de comportements peut être assimilée à l'emploi d'un «outil» au sens classique du terme en éthologie.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The closure of ant societies was investigated in someLeptothorax species (mainlyL. lichtensteini) and inCamponotus lateralis ants, first by transferring individual workers to alien societies of the same species, and secondly by placing two societies of the same species together in an arena. Various behavioural modalities were observed. In theLeptothorax ants studied, the interactions occurring between a society and an intruder worker and those occurring during encounters among workers of two societies placed together in an arena showed on analysis that the behaviour of the workers in a society was highly variable and depended upon the intruding individual or society with which they were confronted. Wether a society will turn out to be open or closed depdends on the partners involved. Differences were observed according to whether the subjects wereLeptothorax ants belonging to the subgenusMyrafant (mainlyL. lichtensteini), orL. recedens ants belonging to the subgenusTemnothorax. On the other hand, no variability was observed amongC. lateralis ants subjected to the above experimental conditions, and the latter societies were found to be strictly closed.
    Notes: Resume Le processus de fermeture de la société est étudié chez quelquesLeptothorax (principalementL. lichtensteini), ainsi que chezCamponotus lateralis, en réalisant des transferts d'individus dans des sociétés étrangères, de même espèce, et en mettant en présence deux sociétés, également de même espèce, dans une arène. Différentes modalités comportementales apparaissent. Chez lesLeptothorax étudiés, l'analyse des interactions entre sociétés receveuse et ouvrière intruse d'une part, et entre les ouvrières lors de rencontres dans l'arène d'autre part, a permis de mettre en évidence une grande variabilité du comportement des ouvrières d'une société selon l'individu étranger ou la société mis en leur présence: en fonction du partenaire, une société peut se montrer ouverte ou fermée. Des différences apparaissent d'autre part selon qu'il s'agit deLeptothorax appartenant au sous-genreMyrafant (en particulierL. lichtenstein) ou de l'espèceL. recedens du sous genreTemnothorax. Au contraire, chezC. lateralis, dans les mêmes conditions expérimentales, on n'observe pas de variabilité des interactions; les sociétés se montrent rigoureusement fermées.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 435-444 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Bees visiting an artificial food source were observed in order to determine the frequency of occurrence of antenna-grooming movements as a function of the concentration of the sugar solution. Sojourns at the source during which no antenna grooming occurred were more frequent when the concentration was low or high than when it was intermediate; when antenna-grooming is performed during a sojourn, the number of such movements increases with rising concentration (fig. 1). The combination of antenna-grooming with other movements also depends on concentration. As concentration increases, so does the frequency of multiple consecutive antenna-grooming movements as well as the frequency of grooming movements separated by operation of the proboscis (fig. 2a, b). Antenna-groming movements between which other parts of the body are groomed occur most often with a 15% solution (fig. 2c); the combination in which the bee uses its proboscisand grooms other body parts between two antenna-grooming movements is most common with a 32% solution (fig. 2d). As concentration increases, the proportion of antenna-grooming movements carried out during sucking rises (fig. 3 above). As concentration decreases, the instances of unilateral antenna-grooming movements account for a larger proportion of all antenna grooming (fig. 3 below). The number of interruptions of sucking at the end of the sojourn is maximal at intermediate concentrations (fig. 4). The results are interpreted as follows. The central controller for antenna-grooming movements interacts with the controllers responsable for the other grooming movements. It is also influenced by the controllers for sucking. The interpretation of the genesis of antenna-grooming movements is an extended application of the disinhibition hypothesis for displacement activities.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung An einer künstlichen Futterquelle wurde die Häufigkeit des Auftretens von Fühlerputzbewegungen in Abhängigkeit von der Konzentration der Zuckerlösung untersucht. Bei niedrigen und hohen Konzentrationen sind Aufenthalte ohne Fühlerputzbewegungen häufiger als bei mittleren; wenn während eines Aufenthals Fühlerputzbewegungen auftreten, nimmt deren Anzahl mit steigender Konzentration zu (Abb. 1). Die Häufigkeit unmittelbar aufeinanderfolgender Fühlerputzbewegungen steigt mit zunehmender Konzentration; dasselbe gilt für Fühlerputzbewegungen, zwischen denen der Rüssel betätigt wird (Abb. 2a und b). Fühlerputzbewegungen, zwischen denen andere Körperteile geputzt werden, treten am häufigsten bei einer 15% igen Lösung auf (Abb. 2c); betätigt die Biene zwischen zwei Fühlerputzbewegungen den Rüssel und putzt andere Körperteile, liegt das Maximum der Häufigkeit bei einer 32% igen Lösung (Abb. 2d). Mit zunehmender Konzentration wächst der Anteil während des Saugens ausgeführter Fühlerputzbewegungen (Abb. 3 oben). Mit abnehmender Konzentration wächst der Anteileinseitiger Fühlerputzbewegungen am gesamten Fühlerputzen (Abb. 3 unten). Die Anzahl der Saugunterbrechungen am Ende des Aufenthalts weist ein Maximum bei mittleren Konzentrationen auf (Abb. 4). Die Ergebnisse werden folgendermaßen gedeutet: Zwischen der zentralnervösen Instanz, welche die Fühlerputzbewegungen steuert und den Instanzen, welche für die übrigen Putzbewegungen verantwortlich sind, finden Wechselwirkungen statt. Außerdem wird diese Instanz von der für das Saugen zuständigen beeinflußt. Die Deutung für das Zustandekommen der Fühlerputzbewegungen ist eine erweiterte Anwendung der Enthemmungshypothese für Uebersprunghandlungen.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 45-58 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Wir berichten hier die Ergebnisse unserer Studien anPrionopelta amabilis, die erste genauere Untersuchung dieser pantropischen Gattung mit den kleinsten Arbeiterinnen in dem sehr primitiven Tribus Amblyoponini. 1. P. amabilis Kolonien wurden in verfaulenden Holzstämmen und Baumästen am Boden des Regenwaldes von Costa Rica gefunden. Zwei Kolonien, die sehr sorgfältig aus dem Holz abgesammelt wurden, enthielten eine Königin und eine für den Tribus Amblyoponini ungewöhnlich grosse Population von Arbeiterinnen. Eine Kolonie, die auch jungfräuliche Weibchen enthielt, hatte über 700 Arbeiterinnen. 2. P. amabilis erbeutet bevorzugt Dipluren, sie nehmen aber auch einige andere Arthropoden als Beutetiere an. Die Beute wird direkt an die Larven verfüttert. Die Königin erhält trophische Eier, die offensichtlich von den Arbeiterinnen gelegt werden. 3. Eine schwache, doch deutlich erkennbare, Arbeitsteilung zwischen verschiedenen Altersklassen existiert. Damit unterscheidet sichP. amabilis vonAmblyopone pallipes, die enzige andere Amblyoponine, die in dieser Hinsicht untersucht wurde. Jüngere Arbeiterinnen pflegen Brut und Königin. Aeltere Arbeiterinnen sind vorwiegend Futtersammler. Wie zu erwarten sind die Ovarien der Arbeiterinnen, die die Königin pflegen besser entwickelt, als die der Furagierameisen. 4. Soziales Trageverhalten unter adulten Ameisen konnte nicht beobachtet werden. Während Nestemigrationen wird nur die Brut transportiert. Ein merkwürdiges Schleifen der Hintertarsen bei einzelnen Arbeiterinnen könnte dem Spurenlegen oder der Substratmarkierung dienen. 5. Die Nestkammern, in denen Puppen gehalten werden, sind häufig mit alten Puppenkokonteilchen tapeziert. Das dient offensichtlich dazu, die Puppenkammern trockener zu halten.
    Notes: Summary We report here the first detailed account of a member ofPrionopelta, a pantropical genus possessing the smallest workers in the primitive ant tribe Amblyoponini. 1. Colonies ofP. amabilis were found nesting in small rotting logs and tree branches on the floor of primary rain forest in Costa Rica. Two that were more carefully excavated possessed a single dealate queen and a worker population unusually large for Amblyoponini. One of the latter colonies, which was in the process of eclosing alate queens (during late March), contained over 700 workers. 2. P. amabilis workers prey preferentially on campodeid diplurans, although they also accept (less readily) a limited variety of other small arthropods. The prey are given directly to the larger larvae. The queen is fed trophic eggs which we infer to have been laid by the workers. 3. A moderately well-marked temporal division of labor occurs, thus distinguishingP. amabilis fromAmblyopone pallipes, the only other amblyoponine hitherto studied in this regard. Younger workers attend the brood and queen, forming a retinue around the latter individual. Older workers are more active in foraging. As expected, the ovaries are better developed in workers associated with the queen than in foragers. 4. Emigration to nest sites is conducted individually, with the workers carrying brood but not other adult nestmates. A foot-dragging behavior, possibly associated with trail-laying, is described. Alarm pheromones are apparently absent. 5. A unique “wall-papering” behavior was also discovered: the workers line the pupal chambers with fragments of discarded pupal cocoons, rendering these spaces drier and hence presumably more suitable for pupal occupation.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 59-69 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Erebomyrma, eine neotropische Gattung des Tribus Pheidologetini, hat nicht nur einen mitPheidole konvergenten Kastendimorphismus, sondern gleichtPheidole auch in der Form der Arbeitsteilung. Die Soldaten (major Kaste) vonE. nevermanni, helfen bei der Ueberwältigung von Beute, verteidigen das Nest, und dienen als Speichertier für flüssige Nahrung. Bei Anwesenheit der minor Arbeiterinnen haben sie ein begrenztes und spezialisiertes Verhaltensrepertoire, das jedoch erweitert wird (einschliesslich Nahrungssammeln und Brutpflege), wenn die minor Arbeiterinnen entfernt werden. Gleichlaufend mit dieser Bereicherung des Verhaltensrepertoires erfolgt eine etwa zehnfache Zunahme der allgemeinen Aktivität. Weitere Einzelheiten zur Biologie und zum Sozialverhalten vonE. nevermanni werden berichtet. Am bemerkenswertesten ist das »Verteidigungs-Gefolge« um die Königin, das verstärkt wird, wenn die Kolonie offen gelegt wird; die Nutzung von Sammelstrassen; das Erbeuten von Arthropoden-Eiern; und das Fehlen von sozialem Trageverhalten unter adulten Ameisen bei Kolonieemigration.
    Notes: Summary Erebomyrma, a Neotropical genus of pheidologetine ants with caste dimorphism convergent to that ofPheidole, also resemblesPheidole in its pattern of division of labor. The major workers ofE. nevermanni, the species examined during this study, assist in subduing larger prey, defend the nest, and serve as semi-repletes in liquid food storage. Their repertory is limited and specialized when minor workers are present but expands to include foraging and brood care when the minor workers are removed. The expansion is accompanied by a 10X or more increase in general activity rate. Other details of the natural history and social behavior ofE. nevermanni are given. The most distinctive properties include the occurence of defensive retinues around the queen which intensify when the colony is exposed, the use of trunk trails during foraging, predation on arthropod eggs, and the absence of adult transport during colony emigration.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 85-99 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Freiland- und Laboratoriumsuntersuchungen einer Kolonie vonMyrmoteras toro, die im Central Sulawesi gesammelt wurde, und einerM. barbouri Kolonie von Singapore, lieferten die ersten ökologischen und verhaltensbiologischen Informationen über diese wenig bekannte Gattung der Unterfamilie Formicinae. Die Arbeiter jagen einzeln und fangen mit ihren langen Schnapp-Kiefern kleine weiche Evertebraten, ähnlich wie es von Arten der Dacetini und Odontomachini bekannt ist. Bevor die Jägerinnen zuschnappen öffnen sie Kiefer um 280°. Das ist der grösste Mandibel-Offnungswinkel, der bisher von Ameisen bekannt ist. Bei der Nestverteidigung werden Eindringlinge häufig mit den Mandibeln gestossen. M. toro jagt kleine, weiche Arthropoden, währendM. barbouri nahezu ausschliesslich Springschänze fängt. Ich nehme an, dass die Trigger-Haare, die typisch fürM. barbouri und andere Arten der UntergattungMyrmoteras sind, eine spezielle Anpassung für das Collembolenjagen sind. Rekrutierung zu Futter und Nestplätzen scheint nicht vorzukommen.
    Notes: Summary Field and laboratory studies on a colony ofMyrmoteras toro collected in Central Sulawesi and aM. barbouri colony from Singapore have provided the first ecological and behavioral information on this enigmatic formicine genus. Both species capture prey singly by the trap-jaw method, much as do many dacetine and odontomachine ants. Before striking the ants open their jaws 280°, the greatest degree yet recorded in the ants. Also, the nest area is defended from encroachment by other invertebrates by slapping intruders repeatedly with the mandibles. M. toro workers catch a variety of small, soft-bodied arthropods.M. barbouri preys largely or entirely on springtails. I hypothesize that the trigger hairs characteristic ofM. barbouri and other species of the subgenusMyrmoteras could represent an adaptation to collembolan prey. Recruitment to food (sugar baits) and during emigrations appears to be absent.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 101-102 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The role of antennal contacts made by the donor worker on the receiver's head during trophallactic interactions among Ants (Camponotus vagus) was investigated by studying the food flow characteristics: amount of foodstuff transmitted, duration and speed of transmission. For this purpose, we either removed both the donors' antennal funicles or tied their scape/funicule articulations in the flexed position. The parameters of food transmission between control workers were found to depend on seasonal factors: the consequences of both antennal removal and immobilization were therefore analysed for each season separately. The workers with antennal lesions gave more food than control workers in spring and summer. On the contrary, in autumn the lesions did not bring about any significant change. The antennal contacts made by the donor on the receiver's head might be involved in the regulation of trophallactic food transmission, at least in spring and summer.
    Notes: Resume Nous avons recherché quel est, lors des interactions trophallactiques entre ouvrières de Fourmi (Camponotus vagus), le rôle des contacts antennaires effectués par l'ouvrière donneuse sur la tête de la receveuse, quant aux caractéristiques du flux: quantité de nourriture transmise, durée, vitesse de transmission. Dans ce but, nous avons pratiqué soit l'ablation des funicules antennaires de la donneuse, soit l'immobilisation, en position pliée, des articulations scape/funicule. Chez les témoins, les caractéristiques du flux trophallactique varient avec la saison. Il en est de même pour les effets de l'ablation ou de l'immobilisation, qui ont donc été étudiés séparément pour chaque saison. Au printemps et en été, les ouvrières opérées donnent plus de nourriture que les ouvrières intactes. En automne, au contraire, l'opération n'entraîne pas de modification significative. Il apparaît que, du moins au printemps et en été, les contacts des antennes de l'ouvrière donneuse peuvent intervenir dans la régulation du flux trophallactique.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 105-117 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Die zwei untersuchtenPseudomyrmex-Arten haben die folgenden Kommunikationssysteme: a) P. triplarinus informiert ihre Nestgenossinnen über das Vorhandensein von Futter, aber nicht über dessen Lage.P. termitarius hat keinerlei Kommunikation bei der Futtersuche. b) Beide Arten erkennen ihr Territorium anhand von Duftstoffen.P. triplarinus markiert ihr Territorium mit einem Pheromon aus dem Thorax, wahrscheinlich von der Metathorakaldrüse. Die territoriale Markierung hat eine Lebensdauer von einer halben bis einer Stunde. Sie dient wahrscheinlich der Verteidigung des Territoriums. Die Markierung vonP. termitarius hält über 5 Stunden an und wirkt wahrscheinlich als Nesteingangs-Orientierungsmarke. Die Herkunft des Duftstoffes ist nicht klar. c) P. triplarinus benützt ein Pheromon aus dem Kopf als Signal für das Erkennen ihrer Schwestern.P. termitarius verwendet nicht-identifizierte Duftstoffe, die überall im Körper vorhanden sind, als Identifikationssignal. d) Beide Arten haben Alarmpheromone im Kopf und im Abdomen. Die Kommunikationssysteme werden im Zusammenhang mit der oekologischen Adaption der Arten analysiert.
    Notes: Summary The twoPseudomyrmex species studied have the following communication systems: a) P. triplarinus informs its nestmates about the presence of food, but not about its location.P. termitarius does neither. b) Both species recognize their territory and/or area around the nest entrance through odours on the substrate.P. triplarinus marks its territory with a pheromone from the thorax, probably from the metapleural gland. This territorial mark lasts less than 1 h, and probably advertises at least part of the home range of the colony. The territorial odour used byP. termitarius, probably works as a nest entrance orientation mark, and lasts over 5 h, but less than 24 h. The origin of the odour is not clear. c) P. triplarinus uses a cephalic pheromone as the main signal for nestmate recognition.P. termitarius uses non-identified odours, present on all body parts of the insect, as a nestmate recognition signal. d) Both species produce alarm pheromones from the head and the gaster. The communication systems are interpreted in relation to the ecological adaptations of each species.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Colonies ofMessor barbarus are monogynous and closed. Tests on societies during foundation showed that their closure is not complete. As long as the gyne is alone, she attacks and kills any stranger. When she has eggs and larvae, she accepts foreign eggs and larvae. With young workers, she may accept foreign workers and tolerate another gyne. It is possible to form a colony with two queens by joining two young societies. Older workers become aggressive and attack foreign conspecific ants: the societies are then permanently closed. Explanations of these changes in aggression are discussed.
    Notes: Resume Les sociétés deMessor barbarus apparaissent monogynes et fermées. Des expériences sur des sociétés en cours de fondation ont montré que leur fermeture n'est pas totale. Tant que la femelle fondatrice est seule, elle attaque et tue tous les individus étrangers. Son agressivité diminue quand elle possède du couvain. Peu après la naissance des premières ouvrières, les individus étrangers sont adoptés et il est même possible d'obtenir des sociétés définitivement digynes en réunissant deux jeunes sociétés. Au bout de quelques semaines naissent des ouvrières agressives vis-à-vis des étrangers et les sociétés sont alors définitivement fermées. Des explications à ces changements de l'agressivité sont proposées et discutées.
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    Insectes sociaux 35 (1988), S. 153-166 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume On a déjà montré (Brian, 1986b) que la sociabilité des reines deMyrmica rubra L. variait de l'état solitaire à très sociable. On rapporte ici que dans la colonie, les reines sociables se trouvent à proximité des œufs. Ces reines sont, au moins dans leur seconde année, plus lourdes car leurs ovaires et les tissus adipeux sont plus développés et leur fécondité est supérieure à celle des reines solitaires. Les reines solitaires vivent à la périphérie de la colonie et sont plus légères; leurs ovaires sont plus petits soit parce qu'ils se sont moins développés, soit parce qu'ils ont dégénéré. La fécondité est faible. Il s'agit de jeunes reines, de reines très âgées ou parfois de reines blessées. Les populations d'ouvrières varient en fonction du degré avec lequel elles régulent la répartition des reines; celles qui empêchent leur regroupement diminuent également la fécondité. Ainsi l'aversion mutuelle des reines et la régulation de la caste par les ouvrières limitent le nombre des reines présentes au cœur de la société. Seules les reines en pleine maturité qui peuvent pondre des œufs bipotentiels et ainsi contribuer au développement de la colonie peuvent fréquenter le cœur du nid.
    Notes: Summary Queens ofMyrmica rubra L. living in natural groups of workers, have been shown to range from sociable to solitary (Brian, 1986b). More data are now presented to show that the sociable queens tend to inhabit the core near the eggs, to be heavier as a result of having a well developed ovary and fat-body, to be at least in their second year of age and to lay more eggs. The solitary queens live peripherally and are lighter, have shorter ovaries that are either undeveloped or degenerate and only lay a few eggs. They are a mixture of first-year queens, spent queens or infirm ones. Worker populations vary in the degree to which they regulate the dispersion of queens; those which oppose central clustering also reduce fecundity. Thus both the queens by their mutual aversion and the workers by their grading of queens restrict entry into the nest core. Only the mature queens that can lay sex-competent eggs and so contribute to the full development of the society are able to frequent the core.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Der Lebensraum und die Nestbiologie der Afrikanischen Honigbiene,Apis mellifera scutellata, wurden an Völkern im natürlichen Verbreitungsgebiet im Delta des Okavango Flusses, Botswana, untersucht. Beobachtungen der Vegetation zeigten, daß den Völkern im Delta das ganze Jahr über reichlich Nahrung zur Verfügung steht. Die Koloniedichte betrug 7.8 Nester/km2. Nesthöhlen fanden sich gleich häufig in Bäumen wie in Termitenhügeln, sie hatten ein Volumen von ca. 17 L, waren nicht propolisiert und hatten nach Süden gerichtete, oben liegende Eingänge. Die Völker im Delta waren klein (ca. 6,500 Arbeiterinnen), sie bauten wenig Waben (ca. 3,000 cm2), speicherten wenig Nahrung, verwendeten 78% der Waben für die Brut und sie verfteidigten ihr Nest nur schwach; die Verlustrate durch Räuber betrug 48%. Die charakteristischen Eigenschaften, die fürscutellata in dieser Untersuchung beobachtet wurden, werden als Anpassungen an das heisse Klima, an die lange Trachtperiode und an die im Delta auftretende hohe Verlustrate diskutiert. Die Ergebnisse, die an Völkern im Delta gewonnen wurden, werden verglichen mit Ergebnissen anscutellata in anderen tropischen Gebieten und mit Ergebnissen anscutellata in anderen tropischen Gebieten und mit Ergebnissen an Honigbienen in gemäßigten Klimazonen.
    Notes: Summary The habitat and nesting biology were studied for naturally occurring colonies of the African honey bee,Apis mellifera scutellata, in the Okavango River Delta, Botswana. Vegetational surveys revealed that the forage available to Delta colonies was abundant and potentially available year round. Colonies had a density of 7.8 nests/km2. Nest cavities occurred with equal frequency in trees and termite mounds, had a volume of approximately 17 L, were unpropolized, and had south-facing, top-located entrances. Delta colonies were small (ca. 6,500 workers), constructed small amounts of comb (ca. 3,000 cm2), stored little food, devoted 78% of comb space to brood production, exhibited little nest defense, and experienced a 48% predation rate during the 5 month study period. The characteristics observed forscutellata in this study are discussed as adaptations to the hot climate, long foraging season, and high predation rate experienced in the Delta. Data for the Delta colonies are compared to those forscutellata in other tropical areas, and to honey bees in temperate climate regions.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Arbeiterinnen vonCamponotus spp., die in weisellosen Gruppen aufgezogen wurden, erkennen nestfremde Verwandte anscheinend auf grund von genetisch bedingten chemischen Abzeichen oder “Diskriminatoren”, während Arbeiterinnen, die in Gegenwart einer Königen gehalten werden, von der Königin Abzeichen annehmen, die ein solches Verwandtenerkennen verhindern. Wir untersuchten, inwieweit diese von der Königin stammenden Abzeichen ebenfalls genetisch bedingte chemische Marken darstellen. Dazu wurdenC. floridanus Arbeitergruppen, bestehend aus genetischen Geschwistern, oder nicht verwandten Tieren, in Gegenwart jeweils einer nicht begatteten Königin aufgezogen. Die Königinnen waren entweder Schwestern oder stammten aus verschiedenen, weit entfernten Nestern. In neutralen Arenatests wurde geprüft, inwieweit sich Angehörige verschiedener Adoptionsgruppen als Geschwister erkennen können. Dabei zeigte sich, dass Arbeiterinnen aus Gruppen, deren Adoptions-Königinnen Schwestern waren, sich weniger aggressiv zueinander verhielten, als Arbeiterinnen deren Adoptions-Königinnen aus verschiedenen Nestern stammten. Das legt den Schluss nahe, dass die von Königinnen übertragenen Abzeichen echte Diskriminatoren darstellen.
    Notes: Summary Camponotus spp. workers reared in queenless groups recognize non-nestmate kin, apparently by shared heritable chemical cues or “discriminators”, while workers reared in the presence of mated queens acquire labels which superoede such recognition. Whether queen-derived labels are themselves discriminators has not been examined previously. Groups of sister or unrelated workers ofC. floridanus were adopted to sister or unrelated virgin queens, and recognition among non-nestmate adoptees was assayed in neutral arena encounters. Interactions were significantly less aggressive among workers whose queens were sisters than among those whose queens were not, indicating that their acquired recognition cues are queen discriminators.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume On décrit un système économique, léger et stable pour héberger temporairement et pour expédier des colonies de fourmis vivantes, ou d'autres petits insectes (fig. 1). Seulement deux types de tubes transparents et flexibles de PVC, des bouchons de PVC et un morceau de gaze de cuivre sont nécessaires pour faire le système. Les insectes sont aspirés dans les tubes.
    Notes: Summary A cheap, light and stable system for temporary housing and mailing live ant colonies, or other small insects, is described (fig. 1). Only two sizes of transparent and flexible PVC-tube, PVC-stoppers and a piece of copper gauze are needed to make the system. The insects are aspirated into the tubes.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Für die subtropische Polistine WespeRopalidia fasciata, die neue Nester unabhängig gründet, werden das Wachstum neugegründeter Kolonien sowie deren Überlebensrate beschrieben. Wird ein Nest von mehreren Weibchen gemeinsam gegründet, so stammen diese Weibchen vom selben Elternnest. Die Wachstumsrate neugegründeter Nester in Zellen/Tag (entspricht etwa der Eilegerate) hängt sowohl von dem Entwicklungsstadium der Kolonie wie auch von der Anzahl der Weibchen ab. Die Nestentwicklung (Zellen/Tag) ist positiv mit der Anzahl der Weibchen korreliert. Die Nestgröße nimmt im ersten Stadium, in dem nur Eier vorhanden sind, schneller zu als in dem folgenden Stadium, in dem auch Larven vorhanden sind. Die ersten Arbeiterinnen haben eine kürzere Entwicklungszeit als die später aufgezogenen Arbeiterinnen. Dieser Unterschied dürfte mit der intensiven Brutpflege der Weibchen für die ersten Larven zusammenhängen. Neugegründete Kolonien gehen vor allem durch äußere Ursachen zugrunde: (1) Durch den Verlust der Nestgründerinnen in solchen Kolonien, die von einem Weibchen allein gegründet wurden; (2) durch große Räuber, die auch Kolonien mit mehreren Nestgründerinnen vernichten.
    Notes: Summary Growth of preemergence colonies and colony survivorship of an independent founding polistine wasp,Ropalidia fasciata, in the subtropics are described. When a nest is founded by an association of females, foundresses originate from the same natal nest. Growth rate of preemergence nests in cells/day (nearly equivalent to oviposition rate) is a function of both stage of preemergence colony development and number of foundresses. Rate of nest development (cells/day) is positively correlated with the number of attending foundresses. Nest size increases more rapidly in the egg stage than in the larval stage. The first worker(s) develops faster than does later brood. This may be attributed to the fact that foundresses provide the first larva(e) with intensive care. Factors causing the failure of preemergence colonies are extrinsic: (1) the loss of the foundresses in single-foundress colonies, and (2) predation by large predators on colonies with multiple foundresses.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume L'ovariectomie des fondatrices deP. gallicus permet de distinguer une dominance sociale d'une dominance de reproduction. Les fondatrices ovariectomisées peuvent acquérir un rang dominant et le conserver. Les caractéristiques de la dominance sociale (temps passé au nid, faible récolte de nourriture, comportement de dominance) ne sont pas liées a la présence des ovaires. Par contre, les ovariectomisées ne manifestent pas de dominance de reproduction. Elles n'inhibent pas la formation des œufs des subordonnées avec la même intensité que les dominantes intactes; elles ne pratiquent pas d'oophagie différentielle. Ces deux caractères impliquent la présence d'ovaires actifs.
    Notes: Summary By means of ovariectomy it was possible to separate social and reproductive dominance in foundresses ofP. gallicus. Ovariectomized foundresses could achieve and maintain the dominant position. Characteristics of social dominance (time on nest, low contribution to food collecting, dominance behaviour) were found not to be connected to the presence of ovaries. Reproductive dominance, however, did not occur in ovariectomized foundresses. Ovariectomized dominant females did not nihibit egg-formation in subordinates to the same degree as intact dominant females did and they did not show differential oophagy. For both characteristics the presence of active ovaries is necessary.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume On examine différents facteurs qui pourraient affecter l'activité des glandes hypopharyngiennes (HP) des ouvrières d'Abeille, tels que l'âge des ouvrières, les stades de développement du couvain et le moment d'introduction ou de retrait du couvain. L'âge des abeilles exerce une influence marquée sur l'activité des glandes HP; celle-ci est corrélée avec la croissance et la résorption des glandes décrites dans la littérature. Seules les larves sont aptes à activer les glandes HP, alors que les œufs et les nymphes ne le sont pas. Les glandes de l'abeille restent inactives pendant trois jours après le début du nourrissage des larves; elles conservent leur activité pendant trois jours environ après le retrait des larves. Ces données sont en accord avec l'hypothèse que c'est le comportement de nourrissage lui-même qui active les glandes; cependant, on ne peut exclure la possibilité que les larves produisent une phéromone stimulante.
    Notes: Summary The effects of worker age, brood stage and time of brood introduction or brood withdrawal on the hypopharyngeal (HP) gland activity of worker bees were examined. Worker age exerted a marked influence on gland activity. Only larvae affected HP gland activity, while eggs and pupae did not. Bees had inactive glands until their third day of larval feeding and they maintained high gland activity for approximately three days after larval removal. The data are congruent with the hypothesis that feeding behaviour itself causes gland activation, although the possibility that larvae produce a primer pheromone cannot be excluded.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Eine obligatorisch monogyne und eine fakultativ polygyne Form vonCamponotus nawai Ito wurden vergleichen. Jahreszeitliche Veränderungen der Koloniezusammensetzung waren bei beiden Formen ähnlich, abgesehen von der Zeit, in der geflügelte Geschlechtstiere in den Nestern zu finden sind. Die Sammelergebnisse lassen annehmen, daß bei der monogynen Form neue Kolonien nur von einzelnen Königinnen gegründet werden, während sie bei der polygynen Form durch Kolonieteilung entstehen. In polygynen Völkern waren alle oder fast alle Königinnen fertil, sa daß eine funktionelle Polygynie vorliegt. Königinnen der monogynen Form sind größer und haben größere Ovarien. Die Königinnen der polygynen Form zeigen eine bimodale Grossen-verteilung doch sind die kleineren Königinnen seltener. Bei der polygynen Form war die Anzahl der Königinnen mit der Menge der Brutstadien positiv korreliert, aber negativ mit der Menge der Brustadien pro Königin. Anscheinend besiedelt die polygyne Form mehr nördliche Gebiete als die monogyne, ihre Areale überschneiden sich kaum. Aufgrund der jahreszeitlich verschiedenen Schwarmzeiten sind die monogyne und die polygyne Form vonC. nawai möglicherweise zwei verschiedene Arten.
    Notes: Summary Obligately monogynous and facultatively polygynous forms ofCamponotus nawai Ito was compared. The seasonal changes of colony composition were similar in the two forms except for the season in which alates were found in nests. Collection data suggested that new colonies are founded only by single foundresses in the monogynous form, but mainly by colony budding in the polygynous form. All or most queens in polygynous nests were fertile, thus polygyny is functional. The body size and ovarian volume of queens were larger in the monogynous forms. Queens of the polygynous form showed bimodal size distribution, though smaller queens were less frequent. In the polygynous form, the number of queens was positively correlated with the number of immatures, but negatively correlated with the number of immatures per queen. It seems that the polygynous form occupies more northern regions than the monogynous one and their ranges contact parapatrically. The monogynous and polygynous forms ofC. nawai may be different species because of the differing mating seasons.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Mit zunehmendem Alter durchlaufen die Arbeiterinnen der Honigbiene in gesetzmässiger Reihenfolge ihre Tätigkeiten: sie gehen von der Brutpflege zum Bauen, dann zur Sammeltätigkeit über. Wenn man den Arbeitsmarkt künstlich, aber nur mässig stört, dann passen sich die Bienen dadurch an, dass sie einige Tätigkeiten intensiver ausführen, ohne dass dabei aber das mittlere Alter für diese Tätigkeit geändert wird. Dies steht im Gegensatz zu anderen Untersuchungen, wo der Arbeitsmarkt drastisch gestört wurde, z. B. durch Entfernung der meisten oder aller alten oder jungen Arbeiterinnen. Durch solchen drastischen demographischen Stress wurde eine Umstellung in der Altersstufe für bestimmte Tätigkeiten erwirkt. Die in dieser Arbeit durchgeführten demographischen leichten Manipulationen lassen den Schluss zu, dass der Bienenstaat bei verschiedenen Anforderungen an den Arbeitsmarkt durchaus plastisch beweglich ist, aber nicht maximal sich umstellen kann.
    Notes: Summary Worker honey bees proceed through a sequence of tasks, passing from hive and guard duties to foraging activities. When presented with moderate demographic alterations in colony age structure, bees may work harder at some tasks but do not significantly alter median ages of task performance for many behaviour patterns. This is in contrast to other studies that have presented colonies with more drastic demographic stresses (i.e., removal of most or all old and/or young workers) and which have demonstrated dramatic changes in the ages of task performances. The additional efforts invoked by demographic manipulations are consistent with a viewpoint that considers honey bee colonies to be resilient rather than maximally efficient systems.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 61-69 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Von der anliegenden Erdhügeln den 5 weitverteilenden Termitengattungen, die an 2 Lagen nach dem Süd und Südwest von Townsville, nord Queensland, sind, sind die Verwandschaften untersucht worden. Es ist gezeigt worden, dass 4 diesen Gattungen, nämlichAmitermes laurensis (Mjöberg),Tumulitermes pastinator (Hill),Drepanotermes rubriceps (Froggatt) undDrepanotermes perniger (Froggatt) polycalisch sind, worin eine einzige Kolonie bis 8 Erdhügeln enthält. Eine enfache unzweideutgie Methode gebrauchte wurde. Ein Köder, der einen radioactiveren (131I) Indikator enthielt, in einem Erdhügel eingeführte wurde, dann wurde die nachfolgende durch Termiten nach anderen Erdhügeln Ubertragung diesem Köder mit einen Szintillationsdetektor kontrolliert. Die Darstellung der Erdhugelverteilungs — tatsachen verhandert ist dadurch, dass zwischen einigen australienischen Termitenkolonien gibt es die polycalischen Erdhügeln. Im einzelnen, kann die überzerstreuung der Erdhügeln für einigen gattungen als Indikation der innenspecifischen Mitbewerbung, nicht erklärte wird, wenn die Lagen der polycalischen Erdhügeln unbekannt wird.
    Notes: Summary The relationships of adjacent mounds of five widely distributed species of termites, at two sites south and southwest of Townsville in north Queensland have been examined. It has been shown that four of these species,Amitermes laurensis (Mjöberg),Tumulitermes pastinator (Hill),Drepanotermes rubriceps (Froggatt) andDrepanotermes perniger (Froggatt), are polycalic, with up to eight mounds comprising a single colony. A simple unequivocal method was used. A bait containing a radioactive tracer (131I) was introduced to a mound and the subsequent transfer of this bait to other mounds by termites was monitored with a scintillation detector. The existence of polycalic mounds among some Australian termite colonies alters the interpretation of mound distribution data. In particular, overdispersion of the mounds of some species cannot be interpreted as indicating intraspecific competition if the locations of polycalic mounds are unknown.
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    Insectes sociaux 32 (1985), S. 43-60 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume ChezParischnogaster nigricans serrei le nid est fondé par une seule guêpe. Quelquefois la fondatrice peut être flanquée, de temps en temps, d'autres femelles ou de mâles. La phase de nid initial commence par la première operculation. La fondatrice se repose sur les cellules operculées et réduit ses sorties. L'activité de construction du nid, de ponte, et le développement ovarien de la fondatrice subissent un fléchissement. La phase de colonie jeune est caractérisée par l'éclosion de femelles et par un rapide agrandissement du nid. La fondatrice se consacre aux activités sur le nid et ses ovaires grandissent. Dans la phase de colonie entre deux âges commence l'éclosion des mâles. Toutes les femelles sont fécondées entre le 20e et le 50e jour après l'éclosion et les femelles fécondées présentent des ovaires plus développés que les femelles non fécondées de même âge. Quelques femelles restent sur le nid comme femelles subordonnées ou de remplacement, tandis que d'autres fondent de nouveaux nids ou usurpent d'autres colonies. Dans les colonies mûres on trouve de nombreuses femelles pondeuses en puissance. Dans les colonies vieilles l'équilibre est très instable et la plupart des individus peut abandonner la colonie à la suite de perturbations d'origine interne ou externe. On revient ainsi à une phase précédente du cycle colonial.
    Notes: Summary InParischnogaster nigricans serrei nests are usually founded by single wasps. Old nests are often reused. Sometimes foundations can be joined by males or other females for brief periods. The initial nest phase begins with the closure of the first pupal cell. The foundress usually rests on the closed cell and reduces her journeys. Nest construction, egg laying and the ovarian development of the foundress undergo a reduction. The phase of the young colony is characterized by the emergence of females, rapid growth, specialization of the foundress in nest activities and the increase of her ovarian size. In the middle aged colony males begin to emerge. Females are all fertilized between 20 and 50 days from emergence; fertilized females have ovaries more developed than unfertilized ones of the same age. Some females remain on nests behaving as subordinate and substitution females, while others found new nests or usurp other colonies. In the mature colonies potential egg layers become frequent. In old colonies equilibrium seems to be very unstable and internal or external perturbations may cause the abandonment of the colony by most individuals and the return to a previous phase of the colony cycle.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary In the antCataglyphis cursor, the developement of alate forms in laboratory rearings occurs from late March to late June and needs adequate conditions of temperature and food. The queen inhibits worker egg laying; she prevents other queens from developing in small incipient colonies. Several years of experiments show the following: 1- Larvae moved from a society producing only workers to another society made apart from the same colony having just overwintered and producing alates, can grow into queens. This “sexualization” succeeds for brood originating from queens as well as for brood issued by thelytoky from orphaned workers. 2- Conversely, large larvae (alate biased), except the ones which are close to pupation, die when put into homocolonial societies which have been active for two month after overwintering and therefore only able to produce workers. 3- The period of maximum efficiency for the production of alates by workers occurs between 10 and 20 days after the end of overwintering. 4- Female larvae can develop into queens or workers until the early third and last instar. 5- By increasing the nurse/larvae ratio, up to 100% of sexuals can be obtained. 6- Young workers, eclosed the year before, are able to sexualize the female larvae and rear male larvae to imagoes. After the winter diapause, the fat body of young nurses is abundant; they exhibit high physiological activity in ovarioles, corpora allata and postpharyngeal salivary glands. Older workers are still able to oviposit but unable to rear their own offspring. 7- Development and sexualization of larvae transferred to alien colonies is possible if all the recipient colony's eggs are removed and if the two colonies originate from geographically close localities. Adopted larvae are rapidly abandoned and die if the native brood is left in the nest; the latter normally develops into alates. 8- Similarly, male larvae need to be reared by young vernalized nurses to develop. Male larvae seem to be relatively susceptible and rare in the brood. They suffer heavy mortality while developing. The physiological condition of nurse-workers seems to be determinant for development and survival of sexuals. The role of thelytoky in the field and its implications for population structure and worker control of the colony are briefly discussed.
    Notes: Resume Chez la fourmiCataglyphis cursor, le développement des sexués ailés a lieu au printemps; il nécessite en élevage, une température et une nourriture suffisantes. La reine inhibe la ponte des ouvrières et empêche la formation d'autres reines dans les jeunes colonies où la population est encore faible. Des expériences renouvellées durant plusieurs années ont permi de mettre en évidence les points suivants: 1- Des larves à devenir ouvrières, transférées dans des sociétés homocoloniales sortant d'hivernage, peuvent évoluer en reines. Cette «sexualisation» réussit avec des larves issues du couvain pondu par une reine comme avec du couvain issu d'ouvrières, par parthénogenèse thélytoque. 2- Inversement, des grosses larves d'ailés (sauf si elles sont très proches de la nymphose) avortent lorsqu'elles sont données à des sociétés homocoloniales sorties depuis longtemps d'hivernage. 3- La période optimale pour l'élevage des ailés se situe entre 10 et 20 jours après la sortie d'hivernage. 4- Les larves femelles restent bi-potentielles reine/ouvrière jusqu'au début du 3e stade. 5- En diminuant le nombre des larves par rapport au nombre d'ouvrières éleveuses, on peut obtenir jusqu'à 100% de reines. 6- Le couvain est sexualisé par les jeunes ouvrières, nées l'année précédente; après la diapause hivernale, leur corps gras est abondant, les ovaires, les corps allates et les glandes postpharyngiennes montrent des signes d'activité élevée. Les ouvrières âgées de plus d'un an peuvent encore pondre mais semblent incapables d'élever des larves jusqu'au stade adulte. 7- La sexualisation des larves par des ouvrières étrangères reste possible si l'on retire tous les œufs pondus par les ouvrières-hôtes et si le transfert de larves est tenté entre colonies d'une même localité ou de localités géographiquement proches. Des larves adoptées, dont la sexualisation est en cours, avortent lorsque le couvain indigène est laissé en place; celui-ci évolue normalement en produisant des ailés. 8- Pour se développer, les larves de mâles ont aussi besoin d'être soignées et nourries par des ouvrières sorties d'hivernage depuis peu. Les larves de mâles paraissent relativement fragiles et subissent une forte mortalité au cours de leur développement. Le rôle de la parthénogenèse dans la nature et ses implications sur la structure des populations et le contrôle de la colonie par les ouvrières sont brièvement discutés.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The life spans of femalesPolistes were influenced by the social environnement found at the emergence time, within the limits set by a probable larval predisposition. An early separation from the natal colony reduced the proportion of wasps able to overwinter and to found a nest the next spring. On the other hand, the removal of older larvae from the brood increased the proportion of long-lived wasps among the imago that undergo this situation. The functional consequences of these findings are discussed.
    Notes: Resume Cette étude montre que la durée de vie des femelles de poliste est influencée, dans les limites d'une probable prédisposition larvaire, par les conditions sociales rencontrées à l'émergence. La séparation précoce d'avec le guêpier d'origine diminue fortement la proportion des descendantes qui supportent l'hiver et fondent au printemps suivant. Par contre, la destruction, dans le couvain, des larves de grande taille provoque un accroissement de la proportion des descendantes à vie longue parmi les guêpes subissant cette situation à l'état imaginal. On discute la signification fonctionnelle de ces résultats.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Les ouvrières deLeptothorax unifasciatus utilisent des repères chimiques et des repères visuels au cours des activités de fourragement. Cependant, une orientation ménotactique (ampoule lumineuse de 60 watt) et reposant sur des repères visuels ambiants domient une orientation chimique. Un trajet effectué vers la nourriture suffit aux ouvrières pour s'orienter ensuite sur une ampoule lumineuse. Les ouvrières tracent une piste au cours du fourragement n'ayant pas fonction de recrutement, mais agissant comme repère orientationnel individuel. Ces pistes sont distinguées et préférées même lorsqu'elles sont superposées à plusieurs autres. Néanmoins, les ouvrières acceptent de suivre les pistes de leurs congénères en l'absence de leur propre piste. Les ouvrières nouvellement recrutées sont incapables de s'orienter sur les pistes chimiques.
    Notes: Summary Leptothorax unifasciatus workers use both chemical and visual cues when foraging. A visual orientation based on menotactical cues (60 watt light-bulb) and environmental cues (laboratory surroundings) dominate over a chemical orientation. The learning response to a 60 watt light-bulb cue occurs after a single trip to the food source. Workers lay down a trail when foraging which helps them to orient themselves but does not recruit other nestmates. Such trails are distinguished and preferred even when superposed by several other nestmates' trails. Nevertheless, the foragers are able to follow their nestmates' trails if their own is somehow missing. Newly recruited ants are unable to orient along chemical trails.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Les ouvrières deLeptothorax unifasciatus différencient de nouvelles aires de celles précédemment explorées. En effet, un comportement de «va-et-vient» apparaît plus fréquent sur un papier vierge que sur un papier familier à la colonie. La chute d'activité sur un papier vierge après quelques heures indique que ce dernier devient rapidement familier à la colonie dans le dispositif expérimental utilisé. Les expériences suggèrent que le territoire est modifié chimiquement par l'activité des fourmis, mais la possibilité d'un marquage chimique n'a toutefois pas été explorée. Trois facteurs contrôlent le niveau d'activité de fourragement chezL. unifasciatus: 1o la nature de l'aire de récolte (connue ou inconnue); 2o la taille de la société; 3o le temps de séjour de la société dans un même nid. Des sociétés établies récemment dans leur nid montrent un niveau d'activité de fourragement plus élevé sur une aire de récolte inconnue que sur une aire familière. Dans tous les cas, il existe une relation linéaire liant la taille de la société et son activité. Des sociétés établies depuis longtemps dans un même nid montrent toujours une activité inférieure aux sociétés récemment établies. Aucune différence n'est observée entre une aire de récolte inconnue et familière. De plus, la taille de la société apparaît être moins influente sur son activité générale que pour une société récemment établie dans son nid. Ces résultats sont interprétés en termes éco-éthologiques, tenant compte d'une caractéristique biologique essentielle des sociétés deL. unifasciatus: les déménagements fréquents, saisonniers ou liés à la précarité des nids.
    Notes: Summary Leptothorax unifasciatus workers differentiate new areas from those previously explored. Indeed, a “coming and going” behaviour appears more frequent on a virgin paper than on a familiar one. The decrease of activity on a new paper after some hours indicates that this species rapidly gets to known such an area in the experimental device used here. The experiments suggest that the area is chemically modified by the ants' activity, but the possibility of a specific marking behaviour was not further investigated. Three factors control the level of foraging activity inL. unifasciatus: 1o. The nature of the foraging area (familiar or virgin). 2o. The size of the society. 3o. The age of the nest-site. Societies newly established in their nest show a higher level of foraging activity on a virgin area than on a familiar one. In every case, there is a linear relation between the size of the society and its activity. Long-settled societies always show a lower activity than recently established ones, and no difference was observed when they recruited on a virgin and a familiar area. Moreover, the society size appears to be less important in determining the general level of activity than for recently-settled societies. These results are tentatively interpreted in eco-ethological terms, taking into account a main biological characteristic ofLeptothorax societies: frequent nest emigrations that are either seasonal or due to fragile nest-sites.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Dans un article précédent nous avons étudié au laboratoire la production des diverses catégories de descendants durant la vie de la colonie. Nous étudions ici plus particulièrement la durée de vie propre de ces diverses catégories. La durée de vie des femelles montre une distribution bimodale et nous avons discerné des guêpes «à vie courte» et «à vie longue». Un chevauchement existe entre les phases de production de ces deux catégories. Il existe une relation entre la date de l'orphelinage, la proportion des femelles «à vie courte» et le sex ratio de la descendance. Les colonies précocement orphelines ont, en fait, une descendance totale accrue, mais cette descendance est surtout mâle et parmi les femelles produites, les guêpes «à vie courte» sont les plus nombreuses.
    Notes: Summary In a previous paper we described a study under laboratory conditions of the pattern of development of the various categories of descendants during the life of a colony; the present study is particularly concerned with the duration of life-span of these various categories. The life-spans of females showed a bimodal distribution and short-lived and long-lived wasps were distinguished. Considerable overlap was observed between the periods during which these two categories of wasp emerged. A relationship was found to exist between the date of orphanship, the percentage of “short-lived” females and the sex ratio of the offspring. Colonies which lost their queen as early as June showed an increase in the number of descendants produced, but these descendants were predominantly male and, among the females, the majority were “short-lived”.
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    Insectes sociaux 33 (1986), S. 388-405 
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    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The analysis of the possibilities of localization of prey by foraging workers shows that the maximal distance is 3 mm.eThe whole behaviour sequence includes the following phases: detection, localization, approach, antennation, attack with abrupt mandible closure, lifting, stinging and transport. A sequential analysis establishes that antennation is more emphasized when the prey is immobilized or is anaesthetized with CO2. In this last case, the prey is seized by a slow closure of the mandibles of the ant which is followed by transport to the nest. The lifting and stinging phases are more frequent when the living prey is larger. In this case, the attack is insufficient to kill or to knock out the prey which struggles to pull away. After a failure during an attempt of capture the ant presents a new behaviour allowing a quick localization of the prey.
    Notes: Resume L'analyse des possibilités de localisation des proies par les ouvrières pourvoyeuses montre que la distance maximale est de 3 mm. La séquence comportementale la plus riche, lors de la capture de la proie, comprend les phases suivantes: détection, localisation, approche, palpation antennaire, attaque avec fermeture brusque des mandibules, soulèvement, piqûre et transport. Une analyse séquentielle montre que la palpation est la plus intense quand la proie s'immobilise ou est anesthésiée au CO2. Dans ce dernier cas, la proie est saisie à la suite d'une fermeture lente des mandibules suivie aussitôt du transport vers le nid. Les phases de soulèvement et de piqûre sont d'autant plus fréquentes que la proie vivante est plus grosse. En effet, dans ce cas, l'impact de l'attaque est insuffisant pour tuer ou étourdir la proie qui se débat afin de se dégager. A la suite d'un échec au cours d'une tentative de capture, un comportement particulier permet aux fourmis de retrouver leur proie.
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    Description / Table of Contents: Resume Neuf colonies du termite inférieurIncisitermes schwarzi, résidant dans les longs et étroits troncs morts de manglier, ont été sectionnées sur le terrain; les découpes ont été reportées au laboratoire et dans chaque section les termites ont été classés selon leur sexe et leur caste. Dans une série distincte d'observations, des portions des colonies ont été introduites dans un étroit tunnel et ultérieurement la position, le sexe et la caste de chaque individu furent enregistrés. Les données résultant de ces deux études indiquent que les sexes sont répartis au hasard parmi la colonie de termites; aussi bien à l'intérieur des castes qu'entre différentes castes. La seule exception était la légère tendance des soldats d'un sexe donné à s'associer avec les individus du sexe opposé d'une autre caste. Les observations ne soutiennent pas la thèse selon laquelle la parenté génétique des individus du même sexe et de même parents (dû à la multiplicité des chromosomes sexuels) et la préférence sexuelle du comportement altruiste, in fluencent l'évolution de l'eusocialité des termites.
    Notes: Summary Nine colonies of the lower termiteIncisitermes schwarzi, inhabiting tall, narrow dead mangrove tree trunks, were sectioned in the field; the sections were taken back to the laboratory and the termites in each section were classified by sex and caste. In a separate series of observations, portions of colonies were introduced into a narrow tunnel, and later the position, sex, and caste of each individual were recorded. The data from both kinds of study indicate that the sexes are distributed randomly within the termite colony, both within castes and between castes. The only exception was a slight tendency for soldiers of one sex to be associated with non-soldiers of the opposite sex. The observations do not support the idea that the close genetic relatedness of same-sex siblings (due to multiple sex chromosomes) and preferential sex-biased altruistic behavior underly the evolution of eusociality in termites.
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    Keywords: Stingless bees ; Plebeia remota ; social evolution ; division of labour
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    Notes: Summary The genusPlebeia has a special significance for the study of social evolution of stingless bees: morphologically primitive, its species display a wealth of behavioural evolution, especially with respect to the oviposition process. We comparePlebeia remota with the few other members of the genus studied so far. Related to its subtropical geographical range, brood production is seasonal (there is no brood in the colony in colder months), and adult workers occur as summer and winter bees. The nest is in tree cavities, and the involucrum is absent or restricted to the winter period. Brood cells are arranged in horizontal combs, and new cells are built completely synchronously. Each series consists of up to 50 cells, their number being mainly dependent on colony size. Construction speed is remarkably constant, allowing 4–6 batches per 24 hours. Cell building and provisioning are activities of a small group of specialized workers. The oviposition cycle follows the classical subdivisions for stingless bees. During the patrolling phase a worker may “offer” a trophic egg in a most remarkable way: while retreating backward from the queen she bends the abdomen under thorax and head, and lays an egg on the comb. This egg is eaten by the queen or a worker. The provisioning, oviposition and operculation of all cells occur simultaneously, each cell is provisioned by 4–9 workers. Localization of a cell by the queen may be facilitated by its characteristic guard, which “defends” the cell against the approaching queen. The degree of synchronization within a batch is very high: the duration per cell lasts 420–950 sec, the batch of up till 50 cells needs only 557–1160 sec. Operculation is done by a worker that was not involved in the previous steps. Males are generally produced by the queen. Several male producing cycles per year occur. In orphan colonies laying workers give rise to males, and in queenright colonies workers may occasionally reproduce as well. Division of labour follows the general pattern for stingless bees; however, cell building and provisioning are activities of a specialized group of workers.
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    Keywords: Apis mellifera ; queen pheromone ; queen rearing ; monogyny ; Africanized
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    Notes: Summary Queen rearing is suppressed in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) by pheromones, particularly the queen's mandibular gland pheromone. In this study we compared this pheromonally-based inhibition between temperate and tropically-evolved honey bees. Colonies of European and Africanized bees were exposed to synthetic queen mandibular gland pheromone (QMP) for ten days following removal of resident queens, and their queen rearing responses were examined. Queen rearing was suppressed similarly in both European and Africanized honey bees with the addition of synthetic QMP, indicating that QMP acts on workers of both races in a comparable fashion. QMP completely suppressed queen cell production for two days, but by day six, cells containing queen larvae were present in all treated colonies, indicating that other signals play a role in the suppression of queen rearing. In queenless control colonies not treated with QMP, Africanized bees reared 30% fewer queens than Europeans, possibly due to racial differences in response to feedback from developing queens and/or their cells. Queen development rate was faster in Africanized colonies, or they selected older larvae to initiate cells, as only 1 % of queen cells were unsealed after 10 days compared with 12% unsealed cells in European colonies.
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    Insectes sociaux 42 (1995), S. 123-127 
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    Keywords: Drone congregation area ; sexual behaviour ; chemical communication ; male competition ; Meliponinae
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    Notes: Summary This is a first behavioural description of a large non-nest associated drone congregation of the stingless beeMelipona favosa. The about 400 drones had originated from different nests. The males interacted aggressively. Several gynes arrived at the drone congregation area (DCA). Olfactory stimuli triggered specific behaviours of the males as well as of the gynes but matings were not observed at the DCA.
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    Insectes sociaux 42 (1995), S. 137-144 
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    Keywords: Stomodeal trophallaxis ; Ponerinae ; ergatoid male ; ergatoid queen ; Hypoponera
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    Notes: Summary The present paper describes for the first time that adult-to-adult trophallaxis exists in ponerine ants. Furthermore, it shows that the adult castes of the ponerine andHypoponera sp. have different habits of trophallaxis. Workers display a soliciting behavior toward queens, males and workers, but receive regurgitated food only from workers. The workers are forced to stop soliciting for regurgitated food by the “whipping behavior” of the queen. Callow queens solicit regurgitated food from workers and ergatoid males and receive it, while mature queens do not solicit regurgitation from workers. Ergatoid males receive regurgitated food from workers and regurgitate it to queens. Alate males show no trophallactic food exchange with workers and queens. Trophallactic behavior was never observed between males of either winged or ergatoid types.
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    Keywords: Soil-feeding termites ; tropical rainforest ; humic compounds ; structural stability
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    Notes: Summary A comparison was made of some physicochemical characteristics of epigeous termitaries (nest walls and surrounding horizons) of four species of soil-feeding termites living in tropical rainforests. Our aim was to determine whether these species affect the different compounds involved in the structural stability of soil in a similar manner. Our data support the general finding that the structural stability of soil is correlated with organic matter, cations and the relative proportion of mineral elements. Of these parameters, the content of organic matter is the most significant factor effecting the stability of termite building materials. Analysis of humic compound distribution revealed that fulvic and humic acids, owing to their electrochemical properties, are highly involved. Also, the organic matter in termitaries is more polymerized than that of humiferous control horizons, leading to FA/HA ratios close to 1. The stability of nest walls and topsoils differs between the species. Generally, the speciesNoditermes lamanianus, Thoracotermes macrothorax andCubitermes fungifaber build nests that are enriched with organic matter and exchangeable cations, resulting in high structural stability. In contrast, materials worked byCrenetermes albotarsalis are not enriched with organic matter or cations and do not differ in stability from the control soils. It is concluded that any generalization on the overall influence of soil-feeding termites on soil fertility might be misleading. Only species which enrich their materials with organic matter, especially stabilised humic acids, contribute to soil conservation and hence fertility. Once the termitary is dead, its organic matter is again available to the soil ecosystem.
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 47-51 
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    Keywords: Colony foundation ; haplometrosis ; pleometrosis ; Acromyrmex striatus ; Attini
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    Notes: Summary Laboratory tests with mated females of the leaf-cutting antsAcromyrmex striatus (Myrmicinae, Attini) were conducted to determine if the colony foundation is a solitary or a mutualistic process. We have also tested the effect of foundresses density and number of available areas in this process. Three bioassays were performed: with single foundresses; with paired foundresses; and with groups of 8 to 18 foundresses. The results suggest that the foundation can be by haplometrosis or pleometrosis, possibly depending on physical distances between or densities of foundresses. Foraging activity was common in haplometrotic queens and in foundress pairs, but no foraging occurred in groups of foundresses.
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    Keywords: Interspecific trail following ; workerless inquiline ant ; Pogonomyrmex colei ; reproductive biology ; seed-harvester ants
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    Notes: Summary Pogonomyrmex colei is a workerless inquiline ant known only from nests ofP. rugosus, its closest relative. Ten of 776 (1.3%) host nests were parasitized at a site in central Arizona, while none of 1499 potential host colonies were parasitized at two other locales. Colonies ofP. colei are perennial, and host alate females in 9 of 10 colonies demonstrates that host queens survive parasitism. Three of 10 colonies died over 19 colony years of observation, while only 1 of 601 colonies became newly parasitized. Mating occurs in morning for up to 2–3 days following summer and fall rains and in afternoon during cool fall days. Mating is intranidal just outside the nest entrance, with males returning to the natal nest. MaleP. colei may be flightless because their wing area is reduced compared to host males. Females fly from the nest and locate potential host colonies by following trunk trails. Workers are the largest barrier to nest establishment, as they removed over 90% ofP. colei females placed in trunk trails or that entered host nests. Males and females ofP. colei andP. anergismus, the only other congeneric inquiline species, are diminutive compared to their hosts, with females 30% lighter than host workers. Fat content is lower and water content is higher inP. colei andP. anergismus females than in their hosts.
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 101-104 
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    Keywords: Cataglyphis floricola ; diet ; food resources ; petal consumption
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    Notes: Summary C. floricola is an endemic species from the southern Iberian Peninsula which collects large amounts ofHalimium halimifolium petals. Laboratory and field observations confirm that both workers and larvae feed on these petals, which represent an important food resource forC. floricola colonies. This petal consumption is a very unusual ant diet.
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 111-118 
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    Keywords: Predation ; polyethism ; food exchange ; behavioral flexibility ; Ectatomma ruidum
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    Notes: Summary During laboratory experiments, two categories of prey-foraging workers were found inEctatomma ruidum: stingers and transporters. When numerous live drosophila were offered to the ants, one group of hunters specialized in killing the prey and another in transporting simultaneously the dead drosophila to the nest. Sometimes, there was a transfer of prey by a stinger towards a transporter, after an active soliciting of the transporter by antennation or by using the forelegs. We found high positive correlations between the colony size and the number of ants in each subcaste. A negative correlation existed between the colony size and the proportion of hunters. However, the proportion of workers in the two behavioral subcastes of hunters was stable in spite of differences in colony size. The phylogenetic interest of this type of cooperative predation is discussed.
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    Insectes sociaux 46 (1999), S. 131-136 
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    Keywords: Key words:Vespula, Polistes, Vespidae, foraging, resource choice.
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    Notes: Summary: The role of visual cues provided by resident wasps on resource choice by yellowjacket and paper wasp foragers was investigated. Large spring queen yellowjackets and small early season yellowjacket foragers (Vespula germanica, Vespula maculifrons, and Vespula vidua) were extracted in hexane to remove odors and posed as though feeding at petri dish feeders bearing daisy-like flower models, equipped with microcapillary feeding tubes, and containing 1:3 honey:water solution. An array of five feeders was presented to foragers at a suburban and a woodland site in Saratoga Springs, New York. The visual cues provided by resident wasps influenced resource choice by approaching social wasp foragers. Vespula germanica, an introduced yellowjacket species that tends to dominate at rich resources, was the only wasp visiting the suburban feeders. Foragers of this species preferentially fed on feeders and flowers with posed wasps and fed most often next to large wasps. Polistes fuscatus foragers at the woodland site similarly preferred to feed on occupied feeders and flowers. Vespula maculifrons and V. consobrina preferentially visited unoccupied feeders. Individual V. maculifrons, V. consobrina and V. vidua foragers that landed on occupied feeders all preferentially visited unoccupied flowers on those feeders. Vespula vidua and V. flavopilosa foragers did not demonstrate a feeder preference based on the presence/absence of posed wasps. Vespula consobrina foragers that visited occupied feeders preferred those occupied by extracted V. maculifrons queens and workers; no other wasps showed species based landing preferences.
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    Insectes sociaux 46 (1999), S. 137-145 
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    Keywords: Key words: Mating frequency, polyandry, Apis mellifera sicula, honey bees, microsatellite.
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    Notes: Summary: Honey bee queens have been shown to mate with a high number of males, but the evolutionary advantage of this high degree of polyandry is still unclear. Mating data from a number of different Apis species and subspecies are needed to help explain polyandry in honey bees. Pupae of four colonies of Apis mellifera sicula from Sicily were genotyped on three polymorphic microsatellite loci. The genotypes of the queens and fathering drones from these colonies were deduced from the genotypes of the pupae. We found no evidence for polygyny, at least we can exclude more than one functional queen, even super-sister queens, if maternity contributions are equal. The four queens mated with at least 5 to 12 (mean: 9.3 ± 3.0 SE) drones. We estimate the error in our determination of the mating frequency that is caused by limited genetic resolution of the marker loci to be less than 1 mating given that Hardy-Weinberg assumptions are satisfied. However, the drones the single queens mated with may be a non-random sample of the whole population, so that detection error may be more severe. The average pedigree relatedness among workers within the colonies was estimated to be 0.341. These results are within the range of those found in other A. mellifera subspecies and Apis species except A. dorsata. We speculate that mating frequency may be positively correlated with drone density.
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    Keywords: Key words: Worker polymorphism, ant-plant interaction, mutualism, morphometrics.
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    Notes: Summary: We compared intranidal variation in worker size in the two closely related plant-ants Aphomomyrmex afer and Petalomyrmex phylax. Each of these genera is monotypic, and the two appear to be sister species among extant ants. Workers of A. afer are larger on average and exhibit much greater intranidal size variation. Workers of P. phylax are smaller and much less variable in size. Both species show weak allometry for some pairs of characters. Head shape is also different in workers of the two species. We discuss these differences in relation to the ecology of A. afer and P. phylax, and propose a scenario for the evolutionary divergence of worker morphology in these two species. Based on comparisons of these two monotypic genera with related ants, we suggest that reduced intranidal variation in worker size is a derived trait in Petalomyrmex.
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    Insectes sociaux 46 (1999), S. 208-218 
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    Keywords: Key words:Melipona panamica, stingless bees, Apidae, nestmate recognition, worker oviposition.
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    Notes: Summary: Nestmate recognition was studied in the Neotropical stingless bee Melipona panamica, a species in which workers “sneak” their own reproductive eggs into 1 % of brood cells. We manipulated four factors that could influence individual recognition cues: the mother queen, the environment during the immature stage, the environment during the early adult stage, and worker age. We also simulated the action of natural enemies on colonies tested for discrimination of such worker characteristics. All factors that we tested affected responses of the discriminating workers, which could recognize sisters, nieces and unrelated workers. Previous exposure of unrelated callow bees to the odor of the host nest greatly increased chances of acceptance by the host colony. Probability of acceptance decreased, however, with increasing age of introduced bees or increasing disturbance of the host colony. These complexities in patterns of nestmate recognition and nest defense are adequately explained from the standpoint of inclusive fitness of the discriminating workers. Differences in nestmate recognition and worker egg laying among Meliponini are also discussed.
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    Keywords: Key words: Mitochondrial DNA, restriction site polymorphism, meat ants, Iridomyrmex purpureus, polygyny.
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    Notes: Summary: The Australian meat ant Iridomyrmex purpureus is known from observations and allozyme surveys to have a high proportion of mature colonies polygynous, but very few incipient ones. Sixteen colonies in the vicinity of Maryborough, Victoria, revealed four mtDNA restriction site haplotypes. One of these nests presented two different haplotypes; given the haplotype frequencies, this result suggests that a high proportion of mature nests contain unrelated queens.
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    Insectes sociaux 44 (1997), S. 15-21 
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    Keywords: Key words: Mangrove, ants, Polyrhachis sokolova, nest, inundation, foraging.
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    Notes: Summary: The nest sites of the mud-nesting ant Polyrhachis sokolova were studied in Darwin Harbour mangroves. They were found from the Ceriops tagal zone to the Rhizophora stylosa zone at elevations ranging from 7.22 to 5.99 meters above the lowest astronomical tide (LAT), which means that the nests were inundated in 13‐61% of all high tides and for durations of up to 3.5 hours. The nest structure was studied by excavating nests and making a cast of the galleries using polyurethane foam. The nests were quite extensive, normally with two elevated nest entrances and galleries down to depths of 45 cm. The loose soil particles at the nest entrances collapsed when the tide reached them and formed a stopper which prevented water from intruding into the nest. In this way, the galleries remained dry during high tide. The ants showed a clear swimming or "walking on the surface" behaviour when they returned to the nest just before the entrance collapsed and during ebb. The tolerance of the ants to submergence was tested in the laboratory, with 50% mortality after 11 hours submergence in seawater at 23 °C, and only 3.5 hours in water at 33 °C. Therefore, the nesting behaviour with trapped air in the galleries is necessary for survival in these environments.
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    Insectes sociaux 44 (1997), S. 23-33 
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    Keywords: Key words: Diversity, chaparral, Formicidae, inventory methods, serpentine.
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    Notes: Summary: In northern California, ant assemblages in 8 sites in serpentine chaparral habitat were compared with those occurring in 8 chaparral sites on adjacent non-serpentine soils. A total of 27 species of ants was found: 22 species were collected in non-serpentine chaparral and 20 species in serpentine chaparral. Seven species were collected exclusively in non-serpentine, and 5 species were found only in serpentine habitats. A Formica species, conspecific with or closely related to F. xerophila, was found only in serpentine chaparral. Subsequent collections suggest that in northern California, this species is confined to serpentine outcrops. Two other species significantly differed in frequency of occurrence in each habit:Camponotus hyatti, C. cf. vicinus. Five species showed marginal significant differences in their relative abundance between habitats:Camponotus hyatti, C. cf. vicinus, Formica moki, Prenolepis imparis, Leptothorax nevadensis, Stenamma diecki.
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    Keywords: Key words: Foraging activity, Meliponinae, Melipona favosa, M. fasciata, M. beecheii, Tetragonisca angustula.
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    Notes: Summary: For Melipona fasciata, M. beecheii, M. favosa and Tetragonisca angustula we found distinct intergeneric differences in foraging activity patterns. The Melipona species had a longer daily foraging activity period than T. angustula. Pollen foraging patterns of the Melipona species were different from that of T. angustula: Melipona collect pollen earlier in the day. In an experimental habitat without competitors, Melipona favosa did not collect pollen very early in the day. ¶Individually marked returning foragers demonstrated in the course of the day distinct differences in nature and frequency of interactions with nest mates. Individual foraging flight frequency was lower and the intranidal transfer of nectar was delayed when syrup of a lower concentration was offered. ¶The regulation of daily foraging activity patterns and the nectar foraging behaviour of individual worker bees are discussed.
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    Keywords: Key words: Termites, nest construction, plant growth suppression, plant abundance.
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    Notes: Summary: Termites invest considerable time and energy constructing elaborate mounds out of clay, sand, silt, excreta and saliva, which they defend vigorously against predators and parasites. Termite mounds are fertile and potentially attractive resources for plants, which may threaten the stability of the mound. Field surveys at Boola Boola Forest in SE Australia revealed significantly higher abundance and diversity of vascular plants growing on uninhabited than inhabited mounds of the termite Coptotermes lacteus. These data reveal that the presence of termites affects the establishment and growth of vegetation. Germination experiments indicate that plant growth suppression is not chemically mediated but rather is due to the impenetrable nature of the mound surface. Analyses of soil types suggests that termite workers may choose particular clay minerals for mound construction, which enhances surface impenetrability and thus increases the engineered integrity of the mound.
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    Keywords: Key words: Eusocial aphids, Pseudoregma bambucicola, resource allocation, soldier investment, reproductive schedule.
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    Notes: Summary: The reproductive characteristics of the soldier-producing aphid Pseudoregma bambucicola were studied in Kagoshima, Southern Japan, to know the factors affecting soldier production of eusocial aphids. The soldier proportion in aphid colonies was highest from October to November. In some large colonies, soldiers were observed in all seasons except in July when colony size was relatively small. Multiple regression analysis showed that the colony size was a principal factor affecting soldier proportion throughout a year. Other social or environmental factors such as aphid composition, host plant conditions and predator abundance were not always significant. Rearing experiments revealed that large colonies (≥1,000 individuals) produced soldiers in almost all seasons while small colonies (〈1,000) never produced any soldiers. The caste-production schedule of adult females was examined in the field. When solitary females produced both castes, they usually produced normal nymphs first and then soldiers. Females from large colonies tended to produce more soldiers in the earlier period of their lifetime, whereas females from newly established small colonies produced no or only a few soldiers at later times. The average number of soldiers and normal nymphs produced consecutively by a single female was 〉10 and 〉20, respectively. Because they have a small number of ovarioles (〈15 on average), females should alter caste production within the same ovarioles according to changes in environmental conditions. Artificial removal or introduction of predators and reduction of colony size did not affect soldier production over two successive generations, revealing maternal effects on soldier production. Females cannot shift caste production quickly in response to changes in predator abundance and colony size. This is probably due to early developmental determination of castes within the mother's body.
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    Keywords: Key words: Leptothorax, colony size, demography, polydomy, Formicidae.
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    Notes: Summary: 484 nests of Leptothorax tuberointerruptus were collected from a coastal limestone grassland community in Dorset, England, over a 16 month period from February 1992 to May 1993. Behavioural observations and dissections of females strongly suggested that the nests were obligately monogynous. Electrophoretic data also suggested that within most nests all the workers shared the same mother and father. Counts of nest contents revealed temporary but dramatic drops in both worker and queen numbers per nest in May—June 1992. Seasonal polydomy is postulated to be the cause of this variation. Such dramatic variation highlights the importance of sampling over as much space and time as possible if premature conclusions about colony demography are to be avoided.
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    Keywords: Key words: Ants, foraging, interspecific competition, Myrmica sabuleti, Formica fusca.
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    Notes: Summary: Myrmica sabuleti forms mature colonies of about one thousand workers and a few queens. Although living in dry and sunny biotopes, this species avoids foraging during the warmer hours of the day which correspond to the period of the maximum foraging activity of two sympatric species, Formica fusca and F. cunicularia. M. sabuleti is the most frequently observed species on the extrafloral nectaries of Vicia sativa, even during the warmer hours of the day, whereas F. fusca is the most frequent species during those hours at tubes of 1M sucrose solutions placed on the ground. In spite of this temporal segregation, the foraging activity of M. sabuleti and F. fusca overlaps two times a day (10:00‐11:00 am and 5:00‐8:00 pm). Newly discovered large food sources are exploited by M. sabuleti through an explosively increasing recruitment, whereas workers of F. fusca forage mainly individually. Interference between M. sabuleti and F. fusca was studied when offering sucrose solutions, large dead insects unretrievable by individual foragers of either species (cockroaches), medium-sized insects retrievable by single foragers of F. fusca but not by single M. sabuleti(larvae of Calliphora erythrocephala) and small insects (Drosophila) retrievable by individual foragers of both species. Owing to its rapid recruitment, M. sabuleti is able to displace F. fusca from sucrose solution and large dead prey during the overlaping of the activity cycles of both species. When medium-sized corpses are offered, the issue depends on the speed of the events. F. fusca is able to take the prey away only if it discovers it before M. sabuleti has recruited nestmates. Small dead prey do not lead to interference, but is taken by the first worker that finds it.
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    Keywords: Polistes wasps ; nest founding ; workers ; behavioral flexibility ; hibernation
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    Notes: Summary First descendants' founding ability was tested inP. dominulus colonies by experimentally removing the original nests and queens 21–24 days after the first emergence. Foundation tests were carried out after three different periods had elapsed after the removal and the results were analyzed with regards to the effects of participation in social tasks, duration of stay within the colony and seasonal factors. 1.Immediately after the removal, the foundations that occurred were performed almost entirely by workers, regardless of the duration of their stay within the colony. The number of foundations depended on the season in which the females had emerged. 2.Two months and four months after the removal, foundations were made by only a small number of females (workers and non-workers). These females, which were therefore able to found a nest the year they were born, were mostly among the very first-born individuals in the colonies. 3.The following year after hibernation: females (workers and non-workers) which had stayed for only a short time within the colony (1–15 days) had the highest survival rates. The foundation rates among the surviving females depended only on seasonal factors, since the foundation rates were higher among the non-workers which had emerged later in the season. The results throw some light on the first descendants' nest-founding potential in colonies developing under natural conditions, where many workers in fact stay for only a short time at the nest.
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    Keywords: Key words: Caste-ratio dynamics, division of labor, foraging frequency, open-air foraging, social behavior.
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    Notes: Summary: The temporal dynamics and social interaction in the foraging activities of the open-air processional termite Hospitalitermes (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) were studied in Borneo, Southeast Asia. H. medioflavus and H. sp. A tended to forage from evening to the next morning. On average foraging activity occurred every 3.2 days. Some synchronization of foraging events among colonies was observed, which appeared to be caused by rainfall levels.¶ Temporal dynamics during foraging activity was observed in detail using a photographic method for two species; H. medioflavus and H. rufus. Roughly 300,000 to 500,000 individuals participated in a single foraging event in both species. The soldier ratio was highest at the beginning and the end of the activity. Temporal patterns of behavior were different between soldier, major worker, medium worker and minor worker during foraging. The patterns of behavior are consistent with their tasks in the foraging activity. Soldiers lead the foraging column and protect it, major workers act as food carriers in the earlier stage while medium workers become the dominant food ball carriers in the later stage, and minor workers play the role of gnawers. Therefore, caste composition changes during foraging activity. Similar behavioral tendencies were recognized in both species. Measurement of workers' body weights revealed that workers not only carry balls of food from foraging sites but also feed directly at the foraging sites.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 33-41 
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    Keywords: Key words: Wasps, nesting sites, palm trees, Astrocaryum sciophilum, French Guiana.
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    Notes: Summary: In the edge of the rain forests in French Guiana, the large leaves of young Astrocaryum sciophilum, a palm tree with long thin spines (up to 9 cm) along their central vein, shelter significantly more mason as well as social wasps' nests, than leaves of other plants. Other such plants include older conspecific individuals with spines, but compound leaves, and young Bactris simplifrons, a palm tree with similar leaves but devoid of spines. The choice of these leaves is due to the association of two factors: (1) these large leaves with a concave underside offer good protection against inclement weather, and (2) the spines on which the wasps' nests are anchored serve as "acquired pedicels", offering protection against ant predation. As a consequence, the wasps' nests are found under these leaves in both inter- and intraspecific clusters.
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    Keywords: Key words: Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae, Reticulitermes, agonistic behavior.
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    Notes: Summary: Displays of intraspecific and interspecific overt agonistic behavior between colonies of Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) and colonies of Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks) were observed in laboratory assays. All possible combinations of arena sizes (1.3, 3.5, 6.0, and 9.0-cm) and group sizes (1, 2, 5 and 10 workers per arena) were assessed for effects on interspecific and intraspecific agonism. Agonistic behavior was scored positive in arenas if half or less of the starting number of termites was alive after 24h. Thirty-six percent of arenas with interspecific pairings were agonistic in all combinations tested while 4.5 % of arenas with intraspecific combinations showed aggression (N = 544 and N = 288, respectively). Two interspecific pairings provided scores that were not statistically different from intraspecific combinations. These assays indicate that evidence of overt agonism between worker termites from these two Rhinotermitid species is not a reliable indicator to differentiate species. Encounters in the two larger arena sizes resulted in significantly more agonism than the two smaller arena sizes. Group size had little apparent effect on the frequency of positive agonistic interactions. Possible reasons for the variable overt agonism scores are discussed.
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    Insectes sociaux 43 (1996), S. 1-15 
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    Keywords: Colony defense ; sterile soldiers ; aphids ; galls ; simulation
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    Notes: Summary Colony defense has been reported in a limited number of species of aphids. This paper examines which life-historical traits have promoted the evolution of colony defense using two kinds of deterministic simulation models. These models postulate that first-instar larvae can counterattack predators and that the duration of this instar stage is a variable, subject to selection. Prolonging the first-instar span increases the proportion of defenders in the colony, while it results in a delay in reproduction. By calculating the optimal first-instar span, the optimal defensive effort of a colony under various ecological conditions could be estimated. Simulations based on the general model, which regards the number of adults maturing in a period as performance, predicted that a lower birthrate leads to a longer first-instar span (larger investment in defense). This condition also allowed the evolution of dimorphism in the first-instar span, which may ultimately result in the appearance of soldiers. Where birthrate declines with time, the first-instar span was predicted to be prolonged in later stages. Colony duration had little influence on the optimal first-instar span if the season is long enough to repeat generations. The galling-aphid model that assumes a fixed number of generations predicted that a longer duration of colonies leads to a longer first-instar span, but that birthrate has little influence on the optimal first-instar span. A tendency in defense reported in pemphigid aphids was consistent with the prediction from the galling-aphid model.
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    Keywords: Key words: Gallery forest, Ivory Coast, savanna, termites, thermoregulation.
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    Notes: Summary: We determined density and distribution of the mounds of the fungus-cultivating termite Macrotermes bellicosus (Smeathman) in two habitats (shrub savanna and gallery forest) of the Comoé National Park (Ivory Coast, West Africa). We measured height, basal width, and interior and exterior temperatures of mounds in both habitats, and established a new method to measure the surface area of mounds.¶ In the shrub savanna, M. bellicosus mounds reached high densities (up to 22.7 live mounds/ha), whereas in the gallery forest mounds could only be found in open stands and at comparatively low densities (up to 6.5 live mounds/ha).¶ Ambient temperature had an important influence on the architecture of the mounds. Mounds in the warmer, but thermally more fluctuating shrub savanna were more structured with many ridges and turrets than the dome-like, compact mounds in the cooler, more equable gallery forest. The surface complexity was quantified as the ratio of surface (= rsf), which is the quotient of the real surface to the minimal possible surface of an ideal cone of the same height and basal width as the measured mound. By manipulating ambient temperatures, we were able to demonstrate causal relationships between temperature and mound shape. In the gallery forest, where shade was reduced surface complexity increased on mounds.¶Despite their different architecture in the gallery forest, the M. bellicosus colonies could not completely compensate for the cooler environment and had a lower than optimal nest temperature. We speculate that this might be caused by the need for a sufficient surface for gas exchange. The gallery forest is a suboptimal habitat for M. bellicosus, because of lower than optimal nest temperatures. This might limit M. bellicosus to open stands in the gallery forest and may explain its surprisingly low abundance in this habitat.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 67-77 
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    Keywords: Key words: Size polymorphism, microgynes, reproductive strategies, dispersal.
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    Notes: Summary: With recent findings of an unexpected variability in the reproductive behaviour of ant sexuals, their morphology has become an area of major evolutionary interest (Heinze and Tsuji, 1995). Here we report on the occurrence of two queen morphs in Leptothorax rugatulus (Hym., Formicidae): Microgynes (small queens), exceeding worker-size only marginally, and macrogynes, which are, typically for the subgenus Myrafant, about twice as big as their workers. The frequency distribution of queen-size is clearly bimodal, in contrast to worker- and male-size. The average size of queens is highly correlated with the size of daughters in field-collected colonies, whereas within colonies no correlation between the average queen-size and the size of workers or males exists. This gives additional support that size-dimorphism is due to a specific, transmissible size reduction of the microgynes which could be based on genetics, the environment or both. This reduction is quasi-isometric, with a slightly smaller thorax-to-head ratio in microgynes, and scanning electron microscopy does not reveal any significant degeneration of the pterothorax, ocelli or number of ommatidia. The frequency of microgynes at different sample sites is highly variable, correlating well with the prevailing social structure in the respective subpopulations. Indeed, the majority of macrogynes is found in monogynous colonies, while microgynes abound in polygynous ones, which is strong evidence for an alternative dispersal tactic. However, the expected correlation to altitude or latitude was not found and further investigations are needed to reveal proximate and ultimate causes of this prevalent polymorphism between two types of female ant reproductives.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 85-96 
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    Keywords: Key words: Chemical communication, Dufour's gland, recruitment, trail following, Messor capitatus.
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    Notes: Summary: Some aspects of the chemical communication system employed by the harvesting ant Messor capitatus during foraging were investigated in the laboratory. After locating a conspicuous food item the scouts return home dragging their gaster on the ground. Once inside the nest they run among nestmates and perform an excited motor display. Soon after, groups of workers rush out and move towards the food. Bioassays of different gland extracts showed that nestmates are activated and induced to leave the nest by substances from Dufour's gland. This gland was also found to be the source of the orientation-recruitment trails by which foragers reach newly discovered food sources. The bioassays showed that poison gland extracts are also active in inducing trail following. However, this response was accompanied by typical aggressive reactions by tested ants, suggesting that the poison gland is involved in alarm communication and recruitment towards a source of danger rather than in foraging activities. Some features of the Dufour's gland trail (such as its durability and lack of colony-specificity) are discussed with regard to the ecological requirements of this species.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 113-124 
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    Keywords: Key words: Leptothorax, Formicoxenini, ergatoid queens, intermorphic queens, intercastes, morphology.
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    Notes: Summary: The terminology for ant females which are morphologically intermediate between “normal”, originally winged queens and workers teems with ill-defined terms, such as “ergatogyne”, “apterogyne”, or “gynaecoid worker”. The terminology proposed by Peeters (1991a) gets rid of most of these terms but fails to distinguish between sporadically occurring “intercastes”, reared due to “mistakes” in caste differentiation, and “intermorphic queens”, which are the ordinary female reproductives in many colonies of formicoxenine ants. A detailed examination of development, morphology, and occurrence of the latter suggests that intermorphic queens are more similar to ergatoid queens (sensu Peeters, 1991a) than to “intercastes”, and should not be comprised under the latter term.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 97-109 
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    Keywords: Key words: Halictidae, pleometrosis, social evolution.
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    Notes: Summary: Female sweat bees in the species Halictus ligatus exhibit a wide range of reproductive roles, ranging from typically foundress or queen-like to typically worker-like. Nests are founded in spring and most are haplometrotic, that is, founded by a single foundress. A few (up to 12 %) are pleometrotic, founded by 2-6 foundresses. Variation in the proportion of multifoundress nests from year to year and from place to place suggests an adaptive basis for pleometrosis. We studied the demographic and social characteristics of 23 pleometrotic nests in an aggregation of 250-300 nests near Victoria, Ontario, in 1984, 1990, and 1991. In pleometrotic associations, dominant foundresses behaved in a manner typical of mid-summer, haplometrotic queens, while subordinates behaved like mid-summer workers. Dominant foundresses tended to be larger than subordinates. Pleometrotic nests were significantly more likely than haplometrotic nests to produce brood, and they also produced more workers. However, this early advantage did not result in the production of more reproductive brood per nest, nor did pleometrotic foundresses experience higher productivity per foundress than did haplometrotic foundresses. Relatively low relatedness among various categories of brood implied that subordinate foundresses were not closely related to dominants. We suggest that pleometrosis most likely results from accidental encounters between spring foundresses as they leave their hibernacula. Once formed, such associations confer a survival advantage on the nest as a whole, but do not result in greater reproductive brood productivity.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 125-134 
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    Keywords: Key words: Life history, kleptoparasitism, interspecific relationships, sociality, spiders.
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    Notes: Summary: Among spiders, some species could be qualified as colonial. Individuals may live alone or in colonies where each spider exploits its own capture web in a communal network. We compared solitary with colonial life in Cyrtophora female populations from South-East Sicily in 1992 and 1993. We used 6 parameters to describe and compare the populations: spider size, web size, egg production, prey captured, presence of kleptoparasites and their size.¶ Spiders living in colonies did not differ in size from solitary spiders.¶ The webs of colonial spiders were smaller than those of solitary spiders.¶ The number of prey captured and their size did not differ between the two types of spiders.¶ Solitary spiders produced more eggs than colonial individuals.¶ Kleptoparasite spiders Argyrodes gibbosus were more numerous in the webs of solitary spiders than in the webs of colonial spiders and there were more solitary webs infested by kleptoparasites in 1992. The kleptoparasites were larger in colonial webs than in solitary ones. Another species of spider, Holocnemus pulchei, spun its own web in the network of the web of Cyrtophora. The number of Holocnemus per web did not differ between solitary and colonial Cyrtophora.¶ Results are discussed by referring to what it is known in other temporarily social spiders.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 191-195 
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    Keywords: Key words: Group effect, latency time, fungus-growing termites, building behavior, bees, aggressiveness.
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    Notes: Summary: We suggest that group effect need not be invoked to explain the differences in latency times exhibited by groups of different sizes in the initiation of building in the termite Macrotermes subhyalinus (Rambur). A simple, alternative, model is presented, that is fully consistent with experimental data.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 301-313 
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    Keywords: Key words:Cataglyphis, worker odour, queen odour, Formicidae, polydomy.
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    Notes: Summary: We investigated the queen's effect on the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of workers in the monogynous and polydomous species Cataglyphis iberica. Within each of the three colonies tested, workers were separated for three months in queenright and queenless groups. After regrouping, nestmate recognition remained unchanged but the duration of antennal interactions between workers previously separated increased relative to controls. Separated groups presented slightly divergent cuticular hydrocarbon profiles which may induce the longer antennations. A quantitative analysis of major cuticular hydrocarbons showed that the total amount per unit of cuticular surface area remains similar between the two castes; but queens had higher quantities of n-alkanes than workers. The lack of a queen did not affect the workers' cuticular hydrocarbon profile in queenless groups. Indeed, the profile of queenless workers remained significantly different from the queen profile as did that of queenright workers. These results show that queens are not at the origin of the hydrocarbons' colonial profile. Two recognition processes seem to coexist within C.iberica colonies: nestmate discrimination based on the colonial odour which includes all nestmate workers, and a queen caste-specific odour. In a polydomous species such as C.iberica, the queen does not seem to contribute more than any other nestmate to the colonial odour, which probably derives from worker cues, confirming the existence of a "Gestalt" colonial odour.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 315-333 
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    Keywords: Key words: Soldier, caste, evolution, ants.
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    Notes: Summary: The traditional hypothesis that ant soldiers originate from large size workers is rejected in favour of their direct origin from gynes. This conclusion is supported by the first report of soldiers smaller than workers, by an intercaste morphometric comparative analysis by means of D'Arcy Thompson's transformation grids and by phylogenetic studies on Cephalotes showing that the cephalic shield appeared ancestrally among soldiers and only later among gynes. The same conclusion flows from facts already known but hitherto misunderstood and stressed in this paper such as: 1) there are species of Cephalotes with soldiers with incomplete cephalic shield and no gyne shield and other species with complete soldier shield but only incomplete gyne shield; 2) the phragmotic behaviour is exercised by workers and soldiers and not by gynes but its morphological correlate, i.e., the shield-shaped head, occurs among soldiers and gynes and not in workers. These observations prove that the selection pressure for the shield morphology acts on workers and soldiers and not on gynes but its morphological correlate actually appears first in soldiers, later in gynes and never in workers. These data sharply contrast with a worker origin of soldiers and are perfectly consistent with the hypothesis of a separate origin of soldiers directly from gynes.
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    Insectes sociaux 45 (1998), S. 349-368 
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    Keywords: Key words: Social evolution, sex allocation, kin selection, comparative studies, Exoneura, Apidae.
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    Notes: Summary: Comparative studies provide one of the most powerful means of assessing the relative roles of selective agents underlying social evolution in insects. Because of the wide variation in social organisation, sex allocation and ecological traits within and between species of allodapine bees, this group provides a wealth of material for such comparative work. Recent studies on Australian allodapine bees are reviewed here and their consequences for understanding social evolution are discussed. Studies to date suggest the following trends: (i) benefits of group living appear to be linked to preventing brood failure rather than to increased brood rearing efficiency; (ii) female-biased sex allocation, when it occurs, is linked to benefits of group living and kinship among nestmates, and is probably mediated via local fitness enhancement; (iii) female-biased sex allocation patterns do not usually coincide with opportunities for sib-rearing and are therefore unlikely to facilitate eusociality; (iv) relatedness within colonies is usually high, but in some species females will nest with unrelated females if kin are not available; and (v) phylogenetic studies suggest that opportunities for sib-rearing, arising from brood development patterns and colony phenology, are plesiomorphic for the exoneurine group, but in at least one phylogenetically distal clade, Exoneura sensu stricto, the evolution of large group size and social complexity coincides with the loss or reduction of opportunities for sib-rearing. Assured fitness return models may be applicable to weakly social allodapine species, but do not predict patterns of eusociality. Instead, Australian studies suggest that the evolution of large group size and marked reproductive skew is linked with the need to defend against enemies at the nest, rather than high levels of relatedness, female biased sex allocation or opportunities to rear siblings.
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    Insectes sociaux 46 (1999), S. 315-322 
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    Keywords: Key words:Bombus terrestris, bumble bee, larval feeding, caste differentiation.
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    Notes: Summary: The duration of feedings received by Bombus terrestris larvae was studied using video-recordings. In the last days of development all larvae received feedings mainly of long duration. Worker larvae of the third brood received significantly longer feedings than worker larvae reared in the other broods. Throughout the development queen larvae and worker larvae received feedings of similar duration. Male larvae received shorter feedings than both kinds of female larvae. Therefore, the duration of feedings seems to be associated to the sex and stage of development of the larvae.¶The causes of the long-duration feedings seem not to be related to the amount of food provided, workers' age and size, to the workers' abdominal contraction or to the amount of pollen in the larval food. Perhaps the feeding duration is caused by the viscosity of the food, which is a consequence of the presence of pollen grains, sugar and glandular material. Although the precise amount of pollen was not measured, the differences in colour showed clearly that the larval food samples contained variable quantities of pollen grains. Some of the samples did not contain any pollen at all.¶It is suggested that the duration of feedings may be related (among other factors) to the presence of glandular material (proteins and enzymes) which is added to the larval food. This could be especially important for queen larvae in the last phase of their development. Because they have a long development and are fed with a high frequency they might receive large amounts of these substances. This could help them to grow more efficiently using a relatively smaller amount of pollen than expected.
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    Keywords: Key words: Pre-mating behaviour, gyne, abdomen enlargement, Melipona beecheii, stingless bee.
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    Notes: Summary: The behaviour of gynes of Melipona beecheii in queen-deprived colonies was studied. The period after emergence until acceptance is characterized by agonistic behaviour of workers towards the gynes. The gynes escaped from this worker aggression by hiding in the periphery of the nest, by performing rapid turn-arounds once grabbed by a worker, and "feigning death". Between acceptance and nuptial flight, gynes spent most of their time in pushing, hiding, and antennal contact with workers, and self-grooming or food solicitation. After the nuptial flight the queen's behavioural repertoire shifted to less pushing and food solicitation, to an increase in standing, tapping and antennal contact.¶Accepted gynes had a significantly more prolonged abdomen inflation than gynes that were eliminated.¶An hypothesis is presented to explain how abdomen enlargement and behavioural development influences the acceptance of gynes and the establishment of a dominance relation with workers under queenless conditions.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 261-271 
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    Keywords: Tropical atmosphere ; Trade cumulus clouds ; Convective boundary layers
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    Notes: Abstract It is suggested that the gross mean vertical structure of the undisturbed tropical atmosphere may be understood in terms of convective boundary layers driven in different ways and on different time scales by the evaporation of water from the sea surface. The mixed layer on a short time scale is driven partly by the buoyancy produced by the light weight of the water vapor; the trade cumulus layer on an intermediate time scale by the buoyancy (but not heating) produced by the condensation of the water vapor in shallow trade cumulus clouds; and the troposphere itself on a long time scale by the buoyancyand heating produced by the condensation of the water vapor in the deep cumulonimbus clouds.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 293-304 
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    Keywords: Atmospheric tides ; Lunar effects ; Ocean-atmosphere interaction ; New Zealand
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    Notes: Abstract The lunar barometric tide has been determined with reasonable accuracy, on an annual and seasonal basis, at five stations on the mainland of New Zealand and at three of the outlying islands. The determinations show that in the New Zealand region the lunar tide has a larger amplitude and smaller phase than might have been expected from previously available southern-hemisphere results. In general, the seasonal variation of phase in the New Zealand region conforms to the currently recognised global pattern, with the J-season phase greater than that of the D-season. Similarly, the amplitude variation tends to support the suggestion that, south of latitude 30°S, the D-season amplitude is greater than that of the J-season. Approximate tests are introduced and used to assess the statistical significance of some of the apparent differences in amplitude and phase made evident by the analysis. These assessments indicate that although many of the apparent differences may be attributed to sampling fluctuations, the main regional anomalies in amplitude and phase are likely to be real. It is suggested that these anomalies may indicate a significant regional input of tidal energy to the atmosphere (at the lower boundary) from the Pacific oceanic tide.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 221-231 
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    Keywords: Travel-time residuals ; Southeastern Europe
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    Notes: Abstract The Pn travel time relative residuals, in respect to a crustal model of the Aegean area, have been determined for 103 permanent seismological stations in southeastern Europe, western Turkey and the Middle East. The values of these residuals are considered to depend mainly on the crustal thickness beneath the seismological stations. Based on these values seven regions with different crustal thickness, varying between 31 Km and 42 Km, have been defined. The crust in these regions is continental. A region with very high negative residuals has been defined in the Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Lebanon). These negative residuals are attributed to different crustal structure of the eastern Mediterranean (oceanic crust with an extra thick sedimentary layer) and not the crustal thickness at the station sites. Independently from the interpretation, these Pn residuals can be used successfully to considerably improve (up to 2 Km) the determination of the earthquake foci locations.
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    Keywords: Lower Tropospheric Disturbances ; Tropics ; Regional characteristics of disturbances
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    Notes: Abstract Regional characteristics of the synoptic-scale wave disturbances in the tropical lower troposphere were examined by analyzing the FGGE level III-b data. Three tropical regions, western Pacific, eastern Pacific, and a region from the African Continent to the Atlantic, were selected for the present study. Spectrum analysis, trajectory analysis and composite analysis were used to obtain characteristics of the wave disturbances for each region. Main findings are as follows: 1.) The generation region of the western Pacific wave disturbances related to typhoon development are found around 5° N and 170° E. 2.) An interaction of the western Pacific wave disturbances with the upper Mid-Pacific trough was indicated statistically as an intensifying condition for typhoons. 3.) The wave disturbances in the eastern Pacific originate to the west of Panama and propagate west-north-westward with a period of 5.7 day and a wavelength of about 2700 km. 4.) The structure of the eastern Pacific wave disturbances is similar to that of the western Pacific disturbances. 5.) Two different paths of the African waves are found over the African Continent. The northern disturbance has a period of 4.4 days while the southern one has a period of 3.3–3.6 days. 6.) Disturbances along the northern path of the African waves are traced only to as far as 45° W, and those along the southern path are traced to the Caribbean Sea.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 398-406 
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    Keywords: Geophysical explanation ; Ireegular variations ; Mean latitudes ; Stress propagation
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    Notes: Abstract Mean latitude variations computed by Orlovs or other filters have some irregular variations in addition to secular ones. These are of the order of ±0.05 to ±0.1, they can last several years and sometimes show regional similarities. In looking for an explanation of such latitude variations several physical mechanisms have been investigated. The most probable one is the mechanism of stress propagation in the lithosphere and asthenosphere. The consequent gravitational and deformational effects could explain both the magnitude and the time dependance of the irregular latitude variations.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 441-447 
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    Notes: Abstract This note examines the accuracy of finite difference solutions of the midlatitude primitive equations and the quasi-geostrophic equation. First order accurate forward differencing of the equations' lower boundary condition is shown to poorly simulate the radiating wave response to midlatitude heating. Forward differencing always exaggerates the magnitude of the radiating response. For a realistic heating height scale and for a reasonable mesh size this exaggeration is on the order of 50%. Central differencing of the lower boundary condition gives an error of only about 3%.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 487-498 
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 468-475 
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    Keywords: Seasonal precipitation ; eigenvector ; spatial similarity
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    Notes: Abstract Three extreme cases of seasonal precipitation over 31 contiguous meteorological subdivisions of India were decomposed into orthogonal components using eigenvector technique to examine their spatial and temporal behaviour. The first two eigenvectors combined were found to represent the seasonal precipitation over India to a sufficient high degree of accuracy retaining 90–95 percent of the total variance. These two components show high spatial similarity in all the three cases of the precipitation examined. The first component is characterized by a coherent variation over the area with large coherent variation over the north-east India, Central India and the west coast of India. The coefficients of the component show annual behaviour with the peak values generally reached during July. This component is representative of the summer monsoon (June–September) mode. The second component characterizes out of phase variation in precipitation between Central India, adjoining parts of the area, and peninsular India. The coefficients of the component show the semi-annual oscillation. It appears that the role of the second eigenvector might be to represent regionality of the seasonal march of the monsoon rain.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 501-501 
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 503-542 
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    Notes: Abstract This paper presents the theory which describes how the lateral correlation of vertical displacement is influenced by multiple scattering of seismic waves caused by the presence of fluid-filled fractures, along with an observational methodology to show how to extract fracture-related quantities (e.g. fracture porosity, degree of anisotropy of the fractures, change in orientation of the fractures, density of fluid filling the fractures) from seismic data using the theoretical development as an underpinning framework. A simple physical picture is given of the basic process, as well as some rough order of magnitude estimates to show that the parameters quantifying the size of the multiple scattering fall squarely in the seismic regime. These calculations serve to create a basis to determine, by seismic means ahead of the drill, (1) the degree of fracturing of reservoir rocks (such as the Monterey shale), and (2) the type of fluid filling the fractures.
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    Pure and applied geophysics 123 (1985), S. 580-596 
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    Notes: Abstract Calculations of viscous damping chracteristics of gravity waves, propagating obliquely across finite monomolecular films, are represented graphically to demonstrate the influence of angle of incidence, film edges, and surfactant properties. It is found that regions of negative damping may occur, particularly towards the rear of extensible slicks. For wide slicks, both the amplitude and the domain of significant edge effects on the local damping coefficient decrease with angle of incidence. Multiple-slick systems can damp waves more effectively—with appropriate choice of surface-active material—than an equivalent single slick.
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