The Foraging Behaviour of Neotropical Social Wasps
The evolution of eusociality among the Hymenoptera is related to the development of colonies with big populations, which in turn presented these social insects with the need for a constant intake of nutrients necessary for their collective survival. Takin
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pical Social Wasps Basic and Applied Aspects
Neotropical Social Wasps
Fabio Prezoto Fabio Santos Nascimento Bruno Corrêa Barbosa • Alexandre Somavilla Editors
Neotropical Social Wasps Basic and Applied Aspects
Editors Fabio Prezoto Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bruno Corrêa Barbosa Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Fabio Santos Nascimento Universidade De Sao Paulo Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil Alexandre Somavilla Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Foreword
Vespidology in Brazil: An Appreciation This is a landmark volume for anyone interested in social wasps and social insects in general. It contains authoritative chapters on a very wide range of topics, from keys for the identification of genera to specific aspects of morphology, ecology, behavior, and evolution. Most of the chapters feature the social wasps of Brazil through the eyes of Brazilian researchers and others who have worked in Brazil or jointly with Brazilian colleagues. The first chapter of the volume describes the lives of some important figures in the history of Brazilian studies of social wasps. Some of them are mentioned in this preface, where I take advantage of the chance to write a personal appreciation of that history. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of research in Brazil for the history of social-wasp science, especially for studies of Neotropical species. I first began to appreciate this when
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