Social Behavior In Insects

Question 1

Eusociality Criteria

Answer 1

1. Division of labor (caste systems) 2. Cooperative brood care 3. Overlapping generations (several seasons) 4. Use Tropholaxis for communication

Question 2

polymorphism

Answer 2

Having different shapes/sizes as adults within the same gender based on the insect’s role in society

Question 3

Hymenopterans v. Isopterans

Answer 3

Hymenoptera-hives made of females only, males are haploid drones, trophogenesis (job determined at birth), holometabolous. Isoptera-hives are 50/50 gender with king and queen, all are diploid, poleyethism (job determined by age), hemimetabolous.

Question 4

Trophogenesis

Answer 4

feeding larvae different things depending on their job as adults (queens-royal jelly, workers-bee bread, drones-pure honey)

Question 5

Polyethism

Answer 5

Using age to determine the job an insect does

Question 6

Inquilines

Answer 6

Insects that sneak into other insect hives and use Wassmannian mimicry to deceive them and get their food and protection

Question 7

Dulosis

Answer 7

slave-making behavior amongst insects (ants will enslave other ants)