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Effects of female body size and timing of nest foundation on the reproduction of the Japanese paper wasp, Polistes jadwigae Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Author(s) -
Tsuchida Koji
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
population ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1438-390X
pISSN - 1438-3896
DOI - 10.1007/bf02513560
Subject(s) - vespidae , nest (protein structural motif) , biology , hibernation (computing) , paper wasp , hymenoptera , reproduction , polistes , ecology , zoology , state (computer science) , biochemistry , algorithm , computer science
Summary Females in hibernation site (FH) were significantly larger than foundresses (FO), suggesting that larger FH were less successful in founding their nest. Body size of FO did not correlate with two nest characters, i.e., the number of cells at pupal stage (CP) and the timing of nest foundation (DP). However, CP negatively correlated with DP in 2 of 3 studied years, suggesting that foundress who founded her nest earlier than others tended to construct larger number of cells irrespective of her body size.