Head-on encounter rates and walking speed of foragers in leaf-cutting ant traffic M. BurdN. Aranwela Pages: 3 - 8
Patterns of the Crematogaster-Macaranga association: The ant partner makes the difference H. FeldhaarB. FialaU. Maschwitz Research aricle Pages: 9 - 19
Honeybee egg-laying workers mimic a queen signal T. Katzav-GozanskyV. SorokerA. Hefetz Research aricle Pages: 20 - 23
How does colony growth influence communication in ants? A.-C. MailleuxJ.-L. DeneubourgC. Detrain Research aricle Pages: 24 - 31
Topochemical learning in black carpenter ants (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) O. HelmyR. Jander Research aricle Pages: 32 - 37
Natural patterns of caste and sex allocation in the stingless bees Melipona favosa and M. trinitatis related to worker behaviour M. J. SommeijerL. L. M. de BruijnE. P. Martens Research aricle Pages: 38 - 44
Behaviours promoting grouping or dispersal of mother and neonates in ovoviviparous cockroaches J. van BaarenA.-S. BonhommeJ.-S. Pierre Research aricle Pages: 45 - 53
Variation in propensity to defend by reproductive gall morphs in two species of gall-forming thrips S. P. PerryM. J. McLeishT. W. Chapman Research aricle Pages: 54 - 58
Do policing honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers target eggs in drone comb? L. A. HallingB. P. Oldroyd Research aricle Pages: 59 - 61
Prevalence of the parasite Strepsiptera in Polistes as detected by dissection of immatures D. P. HughesL. BeaniJ. Kathirithamby Research aricle Pages: 62 - 68
Polyrhachis loweryi (Formicinae): A guest ant parasitizing Rhytidoponera sp. (Ponerinae) in Queensland, Australia U. MaschwitzC. GoR. J. Kohout Research aricle Pages: 69 - 76
Growth rate and body weight of foundress-reared offspring in a paper wasp, Polistes chinensis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae): no influence of food quantity on the first offspring K. KudĂ´ Research aricle Pages: 77 - 81
Social wasp parasites affect the nestmate recognition abilities of their hosts (Polistes atrimandibularis and P. biglumis, Hymenoptera, Vespidae) M. C. Lorenzi Research aricle Pages: 82 - 87
Compound nesting of Strumigenys sp. (Myrmicinae) and Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae), and other nesting symbioses of myrmicine and ponerine ants in Southeast Asia E. KaufmannA. K. F. MalschU. Maschwitz Research aricle Pages: 88 - 97
First record of unicolonial polygyny in Tetramorium cf. caespitum (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) F. M. SteinerB. C. Schlick-SteinerA. Buschinger Short communication Pages: 98 - 99