The Mechanism of Queen Regulation of Foraging by Workers in Paper Wasps (Polistes fuscatus, Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
The Mechanism of Queen Regulation of Foraging by Workers in Paper Wasps (Polistes fuscatus, Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
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纸黄蜂（Polistes fuscatus，膜翅目：胡蜂科）蜂王调节工蜂觅食的机制
DOI：
10.1111/j.1439-0310.1990.tb00412.x
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
J. Shellman
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作者：
G. Gamboa;G. Gamboa;G. Gamboa;T. L. Wacker;T. L. Wacker;T. L. Wacker;Julie A. Scope;Julie A. Scope;Julie A. Scope;T. Cornell;T. Cornell;T. Cornell;J. Shellman;J. Shellman;J. Shellman
我们研究了原始群居黄蜂（Polistes fuscatus）的蜂后如何在10个工蜂羽化后的小型野外种群中刺激工蜂觅食。我们通过实验增加了群体的需求，包括后代的需求，通过移除一个群体中最活跃的觅食者（从而降低了群体的觅食率），发现蚁后显著增加了她的活动水平和攻击性互动的频率。大多数攻击性的互动都是针对强势员工的。然而，移除一个群体中最不活跃的觅食者并没有产生这样的效果。我们的研究结果，以及Reeve & Gamboa（1983,1987）的研究结果表明，蚁后对幼崽的需求很敏感，它们通过增加活动水平和攻击性互动的频率来调节工蜂的觅食行为，以满足幼崽的需求。
We examined how queens of the primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes fuscatus, stimulate foraging by workers in 10 small, post-worker-emergence field colonies. We experimentally increased colony needs, including needs of the brood, by removing a colony's most active foragers (thereby decreasing the colony's foraging rate), and found that the queen significantly increased both her level of activity and rate of aggressive interactions. Most aggressive interactions were directed at dominant workers. Removal of a colony's least active foragers, however, produced no such effect. Our results, together with those of Reeve & Gamboa (1983, 1987), indicate that queens are sensitive to brood needs, and that they behaviorally regulate worker foraging to match brood needs by increasing their level of activity and rate of aggressive interactions.