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Provedor de dados: | 92
País: | Brazil
Título: | Foraging by Polybia (Trichothorax) ignobilis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) on flies at animal carcasses
Autores: | Gomes,Leonardo; Gomes,Guilherme; Oliveira,Helena G.; Morlin Junior,José J.; Desuó,Ivan C.; Silva,Iracema M. da; Shima,Sulene N.; Von Zuben,Cláudio J.
Data: | 2007-09-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Calliphoridae; Hunting behavior; Muscidae; Prey and wasps.
Resumo: | Proteins for brood nutrition of social wasps are obtained from many prey, including insects (even bees and other wasps), spiders and bits of decaying meat. After being captured and killed, prey are reduced to a shapeless mass and distributed to the brood. Little is known about the foraging activity, especially on this group. Herein we describe the sequence of foraging behaviours of the social wasp Polybia (Trichothorax) ignobilis for hunting flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae and Muscidae) over pig carcasses. To our knowledge, there are few scientific descriptions of prey foraging behaviour on this species.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262007000300018
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S0085-56262007000300018
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.51 n.3 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess