A few things I would like to know about social insects

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Starr, Christopher K. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Indias Occidentales, San Agustin, Trinidad Tobago
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REVISTA COLOMBIANA DE ENTOMOLOGIA | 2025年 / 51卷 / 01期
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Bang-bang model; colony cycle; induced defense; social bee; social wasp; termites; EVOLUTION; COLONIES; BRAINS;
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10.25100/socolen.v51i1.12897
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Q96 [昆虫学];
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Looking back over 50 years of studying social insects, this article identifies eight outstanding problems in social insect biology: 1) Can life cycles of individual organisms serve as a reliable model for the colony cycle?; 2) Does the production of workers and sexuals in social hymenopterans fit the bang-bang model?; 3) Do females in social hymenopterans have a smaller individual behavioural repertory than those of solitary hymenopterans?; 4) Is memory in termite workers and soldiers limited to the sensory level?; 5) Do some social wasps and/or bees demonstrate coordinated colony defense?; 6) Is there an induced defense in termite colonies at the level of caste proportions?; 7) Are social wasps passing through a period of global population decrease?; and 8) Is there a relationship between the level of primary production in the habitat and the proportion of social species among the insects?
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