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- Title
Flight Distance and Return Capacity of Polistes lanio lanio (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Workers.
- Authors
Silva-Filho, Reinildes; Brügger, Bruno Pandelo; Corrêa, Carlos Augusto; Araújo de Souza, Laila Salomé; Rodrigues Cassino, Paulo Cesar; Zanuncio, José Cola; Ramalho Silva, Paulo Roberto; Soares, Marcus Alvarenga; Vinha Zanuncio, Antonio José
- Abstract
Social wasps find prey mainly using olfactory cues when foraging. Flight area and the ability to return to the nest after this activity was studied for the predatory wasp Polistes lanio lanio (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) using mark-recapture techniques. One hundred workers of this wasp were removed from 20 nests (5 per nest), marked on the mesothorax, and released after 2 d. Wasps were released at different times and distances to reduce memorization of the flight path. We determined that P. lanio lanio workers' hypothetical foraging area was 13.2 km2 based on their greatest return capacity to nests.
- Subjects
VESPIDAE; FLIGHT; WASPS; EMPLOYEES; DISTANCES; ICHNEUMONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; QUARRIES &; quarrying
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2020, Vol 103, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.103.0406