Volume 60, Issue 1, February 2013

ISSN: 0020-1812 (Print) 1420-9098 (Online)

In this issue (17 articles)

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    Larger laboratory colonies consume proportionally less energy and have lower per capita brood production in Temnothorax ants

    T. T. Cao, A. Dornhaus Pages 1-5
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    Opportunist slave-making ants Myrmoxenus ravouxi discriminate different host species from a non-host species

    O. Delattre, N. Châline, S. Chameron, E. Lecoutey, P. Jaisson Pages 7-13
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    Buying time for colony mates: the anti-predatory function of soldiers in the eusocial aphid Ceratovacuna japonica (Homoptera, Hormaphidinae)

    M. Hattori, O. Kishida, T. Itino Pages 15-21
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    On the relationship between aggression and reproduction in pairs of orphaned worker bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)

    E. D. Sibbald, C. M. S. Plowright Pages 23-30
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    The diversity and host specificity of mites associated with ants: the roles of ecological and life history traits of ant hosts

    K. U. Campbell, H. Klompen, T. O. Crist Pages 31-41
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    Wingless and intermorphic males in the ant Cardiocondyla venustula

    J. Heinze, V. Aumeier, B. Bodenstein, R. M. Crewe, A. Schrempf Pages 43-48
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    A ten-year comparative study of the population dynamics and parasitoidism in the native paper wasp Polistes fuscatus and the invasive P. dominulus

    G. L. Miller, C. R. Donnelly, G. J. Gamboa Pages 49-56
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    Choice behaviour of Myrmica rubra workers between ant larvae and larvae of their Phengaris (Maculinea) nausithous nest parasites

    G. Solazzo, R. F. A. Moritz, J. Settele Pages 57-64
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    The effects of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queen reproductive potential on colony growth

    J. Rangel, J. J. Keller, D. R. Tarpy Pages 65-73
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    Dispersal of non-myrmecochorous plants by a “keystone disperser” ant in a Mediterranean habitat reveals asymmetric interdependence

    Á. Barroso, F. Amor, X. Cerdá, R. R. Boulay Pages 75-86
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    Organic linings in nests of the fire ants Solenopsis electra Forel and Solenopsis nr. macdonaghi Santschi from Argentina

    J. F. Genise, F. Cuezzo, M. G. González, M. Krause Pages 87-91
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    RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Colony size does not predict foraging distance in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus: a puzzle for standard scaling models

    S. E. Bengston, A. Dornhaus Pages 93-96
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    Inbred and outbred honey bees (Apis mellifera) have similar innate immune responses

    G. M. Lee, M. J. F. Brown, B. P. Oldroyd Pages 97-102
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    Estimating density of ant nests using distance sampling

    F. B. Baccaro, G. Ferraz Pages 103-110
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    Technical Article

    A technique to artificially inseminate leafcutter ants

    S. P. A. den Boer, J. J. Boomsma, B. Baer Pages 111-118
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    Obituary

    In memoriam David Stradling (1939–2012)

    A. G. Hart Pages 119-120
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    Annual Report

    International Union for the Study of Social Insects Report of Secretary-General Joan M. Herbers

    Pages 121-122
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