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Recognition of former nestmates during colony founding by the social wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

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In the laboratory overwintered females of Polistes fuscatus preferentially associated with former nestmates during the founding of a colony. They did not associate with non-nestmates or only with nestmates with whom they had overwintered, but affiliated with all former nestmates, regardless of where the former nestmates overwintered.

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  1. Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    David C. Post & Robert L. Jeanne

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Post, D.C., Jeanne, R.L. Recognition of former nestmates during colony founding by the social wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 11, 283–285 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00299305

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