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Question 1

why are ppl interested in social insects

Answer 1

• many dominate terrestrial ecosys
• “superorganism” manipulation
• altruism = evo puzzle

Question 2

subsocial behavior

Answer 2

• aggregation: individuals get close to each other (seek same eviro cond)
• parental care: parent remains with offspring

Question 3

What constitutes parental care

Answer 3

• favoring egg placement
• retaining offspring in mothers body

Question 4

Eusociality

Answer 4

• sterile and non sterile castes
• communal care of young (older offspring caring for new)
• division of labor (castes)
• overlapping generations

Question 5

What are the 3 types of castes that termites have

Answer 5

• King and Queen (live for a long time)
• 1+ types of workers (pale, wingless, blind) (feed babies 4 gut symbionts)
• soldiers (never reproduce)

Question 6

What are alates

Answer 6

queens and kings develop wings

Question 7

Bees Dance communication and colony collapse disorder will be on exam

Answer 7

• Dance communication: Bees have a dance language, so developed that we can create a robot to tell them thing
  Usually dance to tell sister that they found flowers

Question 7

Aculeata

Answer 7

Stinging hymenoptera

Question 8

What could make it easier for sociality to develop in stinging hymenopters (aculeata?)

Answer 8

• sting promotes sociality = defense of food source
• female society