Dominance Behavior in Paper Wasp Nest (VIDEO)

Babraham Institute

Caption

This video shows several dominance behaviors performed by the wasp queen in her nest. The queen shakes her abdomen to activate her ovaries (highlighted by the label 'queen abdominal waves'); 'aggression' is performed by the queen in order to apply her dominance over one worker who shows an imitation of this behavior. Every wasp on this nest bears an identification mark (either tag or painted marks).

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Solenn Patalano

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