Despite its biogeographic significance, much of the entomofauna have not been systematically surveyed. A detailed survey of the ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of this island was conducted over a ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 419-425 (7 pages) Red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta (Buren) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), are abundant in many agroecosystems in the ...

These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most intensely studied in ants. The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to ...

with separate origins of eusociality in Sphecidae and Vespidae — and all ants (Formicidae, which are most closely related to Vespidae; Hölldobler & Wilson 1990). Hymenoptera have a haplodiploid ...

Although some Azteca ants are known to defend their Cecropia host plants against herbivores, these new results, published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, reveal that not only do the ants ...

The Museum houses one of the largest collections of Hymenoptera in the world. The collection is of global cultural, scientific and historic significance and comprises of approximately 3.5 million ...

The giant tropical ant is a good model for the adaptation of a social insect ... Time-place learning and the ecology of recruitment in a stingless bee, Trigona amalthea (Hymenoptera, Apidae).