| Autor: |
Heather R, Mattila, Satoshi, Shimano, Gard W, Otis, Lien T P, Nguyen, Erica R, Maul, Johan, Billen |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Zdroj: |
Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 115(2) |
| ISSN: |
0013-8746 |
| Popis: |
The activities of social insect colonies are supported by exocrine glands and the tremendous functional diversity of the compounds that they secrete. Many social wasps in the subfamilies Vespinae and Polistinae have two sternal glands-the van der Vecht and Richards' glands-that vary in their features and function across the species in which they are found. Field observations suggest that giant hornets use secretions from the van der Vecht gland to chemically mark targeted nests when workers initiate group attacks on social insect prey. However, descriptions of giant hornets' sternal glands and details about their recruitment behavior are lacking. We describe the morphology of the sternal glands of the giant hornet |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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