RECRUITMENT IN SWARM-FOUNDING WASPS: POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS DOES NOT ACTIVELY SCENT-MARK CARBOHYDRATE FOOD SOURCES

Recruitment in Swarm-Founding Wasps: Polybia occidentalis Does not Actively Scent-Mark Carbohydrate Food Sources

Scent Baking Dishes marking food resources is expected to enhance foraging efficiency reducing search time.Many social bees exhibit this behavior, but scent-marking is absent in social wasps, except for Vespa mandarinia.We tested for scent marking in the swarm-founding wasp, Polybia occidentalis.This wasp has moderately large colonies and utilizes

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Workshops with expedition trips organized by the Central Botanical Gardens of NAS of Belarus - an effective instrument of international cooperation between botanical gardens

Romper NASB Central Botanical Garden (CBG) in 2013-2016 made by the lead agency, the organizer of four international scientific workshops with with expedition trips "Strategies and methods of botanical gardens for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity of the natural flora" (Minsk, protected nature areas (PNAs) of the Republic

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