Intraspecific Defense: Advantage of Social Cooperation Among Paper Wasp Foundresses
- 31 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4336) , 1463-1465
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.199.4336.1463
Abstract
Foundress associations and high frequencies of conspecific nest usurpation are most common where densities of Polistes metricus are high. Here nest usurpation occurs primarily in single-foundress colonies resulting in multiple-foundress colonies having significantly greater productivities than single-foundress colonies. This is not true at low densities. Conspecific pressures and not predation or parasitism provide an advantage to cooperating wasp foundresses in P. metricus.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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