7 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPHALLAXES»
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trophallaxes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Food exploitation by social insects: ecological, behavioral, ...
The occurrence and high frequency of trophallaxes among adult individuals are a
common characteristic of highly social insects (Michener 1969; Wilson 1971).
While eusocial insects, such as honey bees and many other bee, ant, termite,
and ...
Stefan Jarau, Michael Hrncir, 2009
The numbers of departures, returns, trophallaxes, particles pourings, groomings,
allogroomings and coprophagies were quantified. The colony foraging activity
occurred during the photophase, between 6:00am and 5:00pm. There was a ...
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Journal of Experimental Biology
It also happens that additional workers usually approach both foragers and food-
receivers when they are already engaged in trophallaxes, protruding their
probosces towards the foragers' mouthparts. These bees either interact with the ...
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A Dictionary of Entomology
TROPHALLAXIS Noun. (Greek, trophe I nourishment + allaxis I interchange,
barter. PL, Trophallaxes.) 1. Exchange of nourishment between insects of same
Species or different Species. Term first used by Wheeler (1918. Proc. Amer. Phil.
Soc.
When solicitations for fluid exchange were successful (usually 2-6 per hour), the
resulting trophallaxes were of brief to moderate duration, usually lasting from 3-
10 sec. The longest exchanges observed lasted 15 sec. On only one occasion ...
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Applied myrmecology: a world perspective
... of intercolonial and interspecific trophallaxes in Solenopsis and Formica were
suggested adaptive in social symbiotic colony formation (Bhatkar 1979, 1983).
Comparative studies of obligatory or facultatively polygyne and monogyne
species ...
Robert K. Vander Meer, Klaus Jaffe, Aragua Cedeno, 1990
Inter-individual behavioral actions (grooming, trophallaxes, feeding with solid
food and carrying with mouth-parts) of ReticulHermes speratus (Kolbe) (Isoptera:
Rhinotermitidae) were visually scrutinized to give the frequency of each action ...
