▪ Abstract The chemical strategies by which parasites manage to break into the social
fortresses of ants offer a fascinating theme in chemical ecology. Semiochemicals used for …

In this book, the biologist Raghavendra Gadagkar focuses on the single species he has
worked on throughout his career. Found throughout southern India, Ropalidia marginata is a …

Observations were made in the south-west region of France on the activity and behaviour of
Vespa velutina workers from a nest reared in captivity as well as from free-living colonies …

Nestmate recognition bioassays are useful in detecting the dispersion of eusocial insect
colonies. They also allow investigators to draw inferences concerning the degree of genetic …

The effect of a wasp's age on its cuticular hydrocarbon profile and its tolerance by nestmate
and non‐nestmate conspecifics was investigated in a laboratory study of newly eclosed …

The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity EPFL Press Distributed by CRC Press COMMON
KNOWLEDGE: THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte …

Highlights•CHCs function as chemical cues for nestmate discrimination in Ropalidia
marginata.•Non-nestmate CHCs of adults get more aggression and less mouthing than …

In Polistes, nestmate recognition relies on the learning of recognition cues from the nest.
When wasps recognize nestmates, they match the template learned with the odor of the …

On any given day, about 35% of 80-to 85-day-old socially naïve male (SNM) lobster
cockroaches (Nauphoeta cinerea) spontaneously adopted an aggressive posture (AP) …

In social insects, nestmate recognition systems can be dynamic and modulated in response
to various kinds of genetic and environmental cues. For example, multiple-queen colonies …