Social Organisation in Laboratory Colonies of Ropalidia Marginata

Chandran, Swarnalatha and Gadagkar, Raghavendra (1990) Social Organisation in Laboratory Colonies of Ropalidia Marginata. In: Social Insects and the Environment: 11th International Congress of IUSSI, August, Bangalore,India, p. 78.

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Abstract

Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) is a primitively eusocial wasp which lacks morphological caste differentiation. By constructing time activity budgets for individually identified wasps and subjecting these to multivariate statistical analysis, we have shown that adult female wasps can be classified into one of the three behavioural castes namely Sitters, Fighters and Foragers. In recent times we have often found it necessary to use laboratory colonies for a variety of experiments. It is important therefore to see if social organisation of the laboratory colonies is similar to that in natural colonies. This report describes the results of 306 hrs of observations of 2 laboratory colonies that were established by marking and releasing all adults present on two natural colonies.

Item Type:	Conference Poster
Publisher:	Oxford and IBH
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Oxford and IBH.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9458

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