• 2018. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae). (yorku.ca)
  • 2018. A record of bilateral gynandromorphism in Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae). (yorku.ca)
  • 2017. Cleptoparasitic Bees of the Genus Epeolus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Canada. (yorku.ca)
  • Impact of body size, but not age or acclimation time, on critical thermal maxima in female Centris pallida bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). (ecitondude.net)
  • Camargo C.A. de (1972) Mating of the social bee Melipona quadrifasciata under controlled conditions (Hymenoptera: Apidae), J. Kans. (apidologie.org)
  • Cortopassi-Laurino M. (1982) Divisão de recursos tróficos entre abelhas sociais, principalmente em Apis mellifera Linné e Trigona (Trigona) spinipes Fabricius (Apidae, Hymenoptera), M.Sc. (apidologie.org)
  • Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50 million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. (researchgate.net)
  • Putting The Ant In Antibiotic Among the most promising bugs to look for drugs are eusocial insects, especially in the order Hymenoptera - bees, wasps and ants. (discovermagazine.com)
  • This was the case with termites and ants, which have the same eusocial lifestyle. (eurekalert.org)
  • While termites first emerged from the group of cockroaches around 150 million years ago, ants and other eusocial Hymenoptera, including bees, only appeared 50 million years later on a very distant branch of the insect family tree. (eurekalert.org)
  • Eusocial behavior is a recent and remarkable conquest of the Hymenoptera and is restricted to the Aculeata, a clade comprising ants, bees, and wasps. (fapesp.br)
  • Ants are eusocial insects from the family Formicidae under the order Hymenoptera. (scifaqs.com)
  • Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. (unionpedia.org)
  • Weaver ants or Green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). (tazintosh.com)
  • 2020. Potential for use of erythritol as a socially-transferrable ingested insecticide for ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). (ecitondude.net)
  • Bush, occurs sporadically in Hymenoptera (in which it has been intensively studied in parasitic wasps, but also is found in wasps, bees, and a few ants), eusocial Thysanoptera, and mites. (qrforex.com)
  • Benefits of genotypic diversity within colonies (e.g. through improved task specialization or pathogen and parasite resistance) may have selected for both polyandry and high recombination rate in such advanced eusocial insects. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since then, estimates of the crossing-over rate have been made in a number of insects, including eusocial species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Wasps (order Hymenoptera) are eusocial insects that build paper nests and feed their larvae with prey items such as caterpillars and spiders. (plantworksnyc.com)
  • Mischocyttarus cerberus stands out among the most investigated species of the eusocial paper wasp, in Brazil. (uefs.br)
  • Bionomia comparada de Mischocyttarus drewseni das regiões subtropical (Curitiba, PR) e tropical (Belém, PA) do Brasil (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). (uefs.br)
  • On the brood of Mischocyttarus (Monocyttarus) cassununga (Ihering, 1903) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). (uefs.br)
  • Mischocyttarus cassununga (Hymenoptera, Vespidae): external morphology of the brood during the post-embrionic development. (uefs.br)
  • Desenvolvimento pós-embrionário de Mischocyttarus drewseni Saussure, 1857 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). (uefs.br)
  • The colony cycle of the social wasp, Mischocyttarus cerberus styx Richards, 1940 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). (uefs.br)
  • 2022. Body size correlations with female aggression and physiology suggest pre-adult effects on caste in an independent-founding eusocial paper wasp ( Mischocyttarus pallidipectus Hymenoptera: Vespidae). (ecitondude.net)
  • Altogether, the estimates from these eusocial species are higher than in any other insect reported so far. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The comparison showed that eusocial species have, on average, significantly higher haploid chromosome numbers than their non-social relatives, both in the Hymenoptera and in the Isoptera [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 2015. A list of bee species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) recorded from three municipalities in the Niagara region of Ontario, including a new record of Lasioglosum furunculum Gibbs (Halictidae) in Canada. (yorku.ca)
  • In many eusocial Hymenoptera species, the larvae are fed by female workers. (definitions.net)
  • Most colonies contained more than one adult female, with generational overlap and very strong size-related ovarian differentiation among nestmates, indicating that the species is eusocial. (bioone.org)
  • Order Hymenoptera is highly evolved insect order consists of approximately 1,55,517 species worldwide and Indian region harbors approx. (arccjournals.com)
  • this new species of chalcid wasp acts as hyperparasitoid of Opsiphanis invirae (Hübner, 1818) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in its parasitoid Cotesia invirae Salgado-Neto and Whitfield, 2019 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). (bvsalud.org)
  • Less than 1% of these species are eusocial. (besgroup.org)
  • They are of the order Hymenoptera and family Siricidae (which includes 150 non-social species). (besgroup.org)
  • An annotated andupdated checklist of non- Apis bees of the genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from India has been systematically studied by Meena and Dey, (2019) . (arccjournals.com)
  • Contribution of DNA barcoding to the study of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Canada: progress to date. (yorku.ca)
  • In this work, we report for the first time the occurrence of the parasitoid wasp Brachymeria amenocles (Walker, 1846) (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) associated with the larvae of the flesh fly, Peckia (Peckia) chrysostoma (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), in Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study we estimate recombination rate in a eusocial wasp Vespula vulgaris that represents a third phylogenetic lineage within eusocial hymenopterans. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Previous research explored recombination in the honeybee, a eusocial hymenopteran with an exceptionally high genome-wide recombination rate. (elsevierpure.com)
  • A comparable study in a non-social member of the Hymenoptera that would disentangle the impact of sociality from Hymenoptera-specific features such as haplodiploidy on the evolution of the high genome-wide recombination rate in social Hymenoptera is missing. (elsevierpure.com)
  • 2013. Colony disturbance and solitary nest initiation by workers in the obligately eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus . (yorku.ca)
  • Cauich O., Quezada-Euán J.J.G., Macias-Macias J.O., Reyes-Oregel V., Medina-Peralta S., Parra-Tabla V. (2004) Behavior and pollination efficiency of Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) on greenhouse tomatoes ( Lycopersicum esculentum ) in Subtropical México, Hortic. (apidologie.org)
  • 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. (eol.org)
  • 2015. Phenological, but not social, variation associated with climate differences in a eusocial sweat bee, Halictus ligatus , nesting in southern Ontario. (yorku.ca)
  • To understand the evolution of worker life span I applied a trade-off model that includes both hierarchical levels important in eusocial systems, namely the colony- and the individual-level. (mpg.de)
  • While neither worker nor queen life span was associated with colony size, the differences between queen and worker life span increase with larger average colony sizes across all eusocial Hymenoptera. (mpg.de)
  • Both groups are defined as eusocial, as several generations coexist within a single colony, with cooperative brood care and the reproductive division of labor, which means that only selected individuals within a colony reproduce, for example, the queen and king termites. (eurekalert.org)
  • These include all of the highly eusocial bees (Apinae) which live in perennial colonies as well as the primitively eusocial bumblebees and the solitary and parasocial Euglossini. (eol.org)
  • In my doctoral thesis I investigated the evolution of demographic traits within eusocial Hymenoptera. (mpg.de)
  • A team headed by evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. Judith Korb from the University of Freiburg, bioinformatician Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer, evolutionary biologist Dr. Mark Harrison and evolutionary biologist Dr. Evelien Jongepier from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster has now compared the molecular basis for the evolution of the eusocial lifestyle. (eurekalert.org)
  • This is, therefore, a classic case of convergent evolution: both groups evolved similar molecular mechanisms for a eusocial lifestyle under similar selection pressures," says genomics expert Dr. Mark Harrison. (eurekalert.org)
  • abstract = "In cooperatively-breeding or eusocial societies, opportunities may arise for helper individuals to gain direct fitness by reproducing. (uea.ac.uk)
  • In many eusocial Hymenoptera, workers lay eggs only in queenless conditions following the death of the queen or queens. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Although genomic and behavioral knowledge on Hymenoptera has increased greatly in recent years, key aspects of biology, including dominance and regulation of reproductive capacity and how these relate to the development of eusociality, remain unknown. (fapesp.br)
  • Halictidae are one of the six bee families in the order Hymenoptera. (ufl.edu)
  • Morphological and allozyme analyses suggested the occurrence of a pseudocryptic species in the Lasioglossum villosulum (Kirby, 1802) species complex (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). (europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu)
  • Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Bienenfauna Aegyptens (Hymenoptera: Apidae-Halictidae-Halictinae). (europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu)
  • 2013. Revision and reclassification of Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) , L. (Hemihalictus) and L. (Sphecodogastra) in eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). (yorku.ca)
  • Dual origins of social parasitism in North American Dialictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) identified using a phylogenetic approach. (yorku.ca)
  • A new cleptoparasitic Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from Africa. (yorku.ca)
  • A new species of Crematogaster Lund, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran with an identification key to Iranian Crematogaster species. (eusozial.de)
  • this new species of chalcid wasp acts as hyperparasitoid of Opsiphanis invirae (Hübner, 1818) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in its parasitoid Cotesia invirae Salgado-Neto and Whitfield, 2019 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study, we evaluated the roles of the Toll and IMD pathways of a pupal parasitoid, Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), in fighting against Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae). (bvsalud.org)
  • It is supported by female-biased investment by workers in the social Hymenoptera where relatedness to sisters is higher than to brothers because of haplodiploidy. (nature.com)
  • The most successful demonstration of this is sex-biased investment in haplodiploid eusocial insects, where the life-for-life relatedness of a worker to her sisters is higher than to her brothers 2 , 3 . (nature.com)
  • In eusocial diploids, relatedness asymmetries are generally thought to be absent. (nature.com)
  • Some think it's because of the peculiar " haplodiploid " nature of inheritance in Hymenoptera, whereby the male who fertilizes the queen is haploid (has only a single set of chromosomes), and the fertile queen is diploid, with the normal two sets. (whyevolutionistrue.com)
  • Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex determination in Hymenoptera, as it makes sisters exceptionally closely related to each other. (entomoresin.com)
  • Engel, M.S., Huang, D.Y., Alqarni, A.S. & Cai, C.Y. (2016) An unusual new lineage of sawflies (Hymenoptera) in Upper Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (mapress.com)
  • 2009. Rapid range expansion of the wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), in North America. (yorku.ca)
  • Eusocial Hymenoptera are often characterized by having facultatively or obligately sterile worker castes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most Hymenoptera venom genes are shared by all members of the clade and only melittin and the new venom protein family anthophilin1 appear unique to the bee lineage. (biomedcentral.com)
  • esta nova espécie Chalcididae atua como hiperparasitoide de Opsiphanis invirae (Hübner, 1818) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) em pupas de seu parasitoide Cotesia invirae Salgado-Neto and Whitfield, 2019 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). (bvsalud.org)
  • Phylogenetic data suggests that reversals from eusocial to solitary behaviour have occurred in this group. (yorku.ca)
  • One major finding was that the expression patterns of bumblebee workers more closely resemble those of queens when reproductive compared to higher eusocial Hymenoptera, possibly due to the more plastic nature of bumblebee worker castes. (le.ac.uk)
  • As a result, Hymenoptera provide an exceptional opportunity to investigate the co-evolution of toxin genes and associated anatomy within a larger clade. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The main topics are field observations, optimisation models for eusocial life This thesis extends the classical theoretical work of Macevicz and Oster (1976, expanded by Oster and Wilson, 1978) on adaptive life history strategies in social insects. (uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • Jattiot, R., Krogmann, L. & Nel, A. (2011) Revision of Prosyntexis from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae: Trematothoracinae). (mapress.com)
  • a ) The typical eusocial breeding system for sex-asymmetric inbreeding. (nature.com)
  • The main topics are field observations, optimisation models for eusocial life histories, temporal variation in life history decisions, and annual colony cycles of eusocial insects. (uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • Our findings open broad new avenues to test inclusive fitness theory beyond the well-studied eusocial Hymenoptera. (nature.com)
  • We show evolutionary signatures of termite eusociality by comparing the genomes and transcriptomes of three termites and the cockroach against the background of 16 other eusocial and non-eusocial insects. (nih.gov)
  • Moreover, existing data in Hymenoptera (although not extensive) are more consistent with generalized reciprocity. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here we show that kin selection can result in sex ratio bias in eusocial diploids. (nature.com)