Honey Caches Help Female Paper Wasps ( Polistes annularis ) Survive Texas Winters

Autor:	Joan E. Strassman
Rok vydání:	1979
Předmět:	geography animal structures Multidisciplinary geography.geographical_feature_category biology Polistes annularis Ecology fungi digestive oral and skin physiology Spring (hydrology) behavior and behavior mechanisms food and beverages biology.organism_classification
Zdroj:	Science. 204:207-209
ISSN:	1095-9203 0036-8075
DOI:	10.1126/science.204.4389.207
Popis:	Polistes annularis females store honey in their nests in autumn. They return to their nests on warmn winter days, eat honey, and defend itfrom non-sisters. Honey deprivation decreases numbers surviving the winter; females that do survive without honey build smaller spring nests.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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