ENY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Megachile Rotundata, Bumblebee, Lac

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Entomology and Nematology
• Course: ENY 1001
• Professor: Rebecca Baldwin

Document Summary

(1) cooperative care of offspring, (2) reproductive division of labor, (3) generational overlap. Practiced exclusively by hymenoptera and isoptera: subsociality. The exhibition of two or less eusocial traits. Reduces the chance an individual will get singled out and eaten. Living in a group can improve success at raising young. Improves the likelihood that an individual will find and secure food. Protection is somewhat offset by a bigger target. Members of a community must sacrifice mating, egg-laying and their lives: difference between ants and termites. Termites have a king and ants have a queen. Termites engage in anal trophalaxis, ants have chewing mouthparts. Termites have child labor, ants care for their young: martin lindauer. Discovered the image of the busy bee is somewhat of a myth: apis mellifera. Jay swammerdam discovered colonies are led by a queen bee. Used to communicate sources and distance of food.