Insectes Sociaux

Article	Citations
The gut microbiota of bumblebees	41
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	15
Very rapid multi-odour discrimination learning in the ant Lasius niger	15
Royal presence promotes worker and soldier aggression against non-nestmates in termites	14
Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	12
Tandem communication improves ant foraging success in a highly competitive tropical habitat	12
A global review of termite sampling methods	12
Dynamic protozoan abundance of Coptotermes kings and queens during the transition from biparental to alloparental care	11
Ecogeographical patterns of body size differ among North American paper wasp species	9
Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country	9
Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp	8
Effect of soldiers on collective tunneling behavior in three species of Reticulitermes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)	8
RFID-tagged amazonian stingless bees confirm that landscape configuration and nest re-establishment time affect homing ability	7
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	7
Visual associative learning and olfactory preferences of the greater banded hornet, Vespa tropica	7
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	7
Migration in honey bees	6
Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution	6
Morphology of the exocrine glands associated with the maxillolabial complex in the ant Camponotus japonicus Mayr, 1866 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Nesting biology and social organisation of the allodapine bee Exoneura angophorae (Hymenoptera: Apidae): montane environmental constraints yield biased sex allocation yet phenology is unhindered	6
Cuticular hydrocarbons as cues of caste and sex in the German wasp Vespula germanica	6
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	6
Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees	6
Aggressive behavior across ant lineages: importance, quantification, and associations with trait evolution	5

Sociality reduces the probability of eradication success of arthropod pests	5
Seed density in monospecific and mixed patches affects individual and collective foraging in ants	5
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	5
Age-related variation of homing range in honeybee males (Apis mellifera)	5
Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia	5
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	4
A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites	4
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	4
Reexamining how ecology shapes the ontogeny of colony size and caste composition in social insects: insights from turtle ants in the arboreal realm	4
Ant foraging path use responds to different types of risk and their encounter probabilities	4
The evidence of temporary social parasitism by Polyrhachis lamellidens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a Camponotus obscuripes colony (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	4
Would wax glands help us to understand the relationships among corbiculate bees?	4
Predation on nests of three species of Amazon River turtles (Podocnemis) by underground-foraging army ants (Labidus coecus)	4
Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	4
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	3
Corpse removal increases when honey bee colonies experience high Varroa destructor infestation	3
Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis	3
Selection on size variation: more variation in bumble bee workers and in the wild	3
Sampling bias in multiscale ant diversity responses to landscape composition in a human-disturbed rainforest	3
Origin of an evolutionary novelty: the worker phenotype of eusocial wasps	3
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	3
Tool use by foraging ants	3
Effect of diet on incipient colony success for two long-tongued bumblebee species in the laboratory	3
From the bellies of babes: a larval-based approach to ant molecular gut content analysis	3
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	3
The survival consequences of grooming in the honey bee Apis mellifera	3
Twigs in leaf litter: overlap in twig size occupation by nesting ants	3
Could soil granulometry and permeability drive the occurrence of the dune-dwelling ants from the genus Mycetophylax?	3
Ants foraging in sidewalks: particle-use behavior of the fire ant Solenopsis geminata Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	3
Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata	3
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	3
Sexual group composition and shelter geometry affect collective decision-making: the case of Periplaneta americana	2
Larval food provisions affect developmental time, body size and vitellogenin titers of Scaptotrigona pectoralis gynes (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	2
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	2
How host diet impact the life of termitophiles: insights from the Corotoca–Constrictotermes cyphergaster relationship	2
Ant colonies explore novel environments with more slower, curvier walks, particularly near the nest	2
Media made from brown-rotted elm and pine wood for rearing Reticulitermes termites	2
Save the survivors: the remarkable ant diversity of the last protected fragment of savanna in Southern Brazil	2
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	2
Facial color diversity of Polistes paper wasps	2
Preimaginal caste-related bias in the paper wasp Polistes jokahamae is limited to the first brood	2
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	2
The curse of invasive social insects	2
A review of factors influencing diapause in bumble bee queens	2
Chemical and genetic evidences that multiple hornet colonies attack honeybee colonies	2
Rest of the carpenter ant Camponotus compressus undergoes a drastic change after mating	2
Genetic and morphometric variation in Schwarziana quadripunctata and Schwarziana mourei (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)	2
Stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) foraging and predation at trunk resin sources: Rare observations captured with microcontroller-based camera traps in a lowland dipterocarp forest	2
Different nest entrance architecture by Colobopsis and Temnothorax ants colonizing oak galls	2
Somatic anomalies in Formicidae: new cases and discussion of anomaly origin during immature development	1

No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	1
The effects of a myrmecochore-produced chemical on entomopathogenic fungal growth and seed-dispersing ant survival rates and foraging patterns	1
Natural history of Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an Atlantic Forest reserve, Brazil	1
Effects of Azteca trigona alarm pheromones on heterospecific ant behavior	1
Adaptive significance of early reproduction in Vespula shidai social wasps	1
Mite–termite interaction: does termite mortality mediate mite density?	1
First report on the use of Stryphnodendron adstringens (Fabaceae) live fruits as nests by Camponotus sp. and Nesomyrmex spininodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a Neotropical savanna	1
Plasticity in expression of fruit fly larval feeding clusters in response to changes in food quality and distribution	1
A new experimental setup for studying ants and similar-sized insects	1
Increasing road cover in urban areas is associated with greater midgut histological damage in a primitively eusocial bee	1
Effect of intraspecific competition on the demography of leaf-cutting ants: a matrix model approach	1
Scientific note: behavioral dynamics of pollen storage in Melipona quadrifasciata	1
Ant nests differentially affect soil chemistry across elevational gradients	1
Behavioral differentiation among workers may reduce reproductive conflicts during colony inheritance in the termite Reticulitermes labralis	1
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	1
Inter-gall dispersal in a socially parasitic aphid	1
Correction to: Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	1
Comb phenotype of Apis mellifera ligustica is altered after exposure to chronic-localized heat stress	1
Beyond busy workers: exploring the sensitivity of inactive ants to environmental cues	1
Termites reigned by royals close ranks	1
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, and queen–worker dimorphism of an oriental non-army ant doryline Cerapachys sulcinodis species complex in northern Thailand	1
Rate of molecular evolution and life history traits of social insects	1
Physiological changes of primary reproductives after founding incipient colonies in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes chinensis Snyder	1
The costs and benefits of maternal egg care in the earwig Forficula pubescens	1
Incipient colonies of the neotropical termite Cornitermes cumulans (Isoptera: Termitidae): comparing monogamy and polygamy as reproductive strategies	1
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	1
Queens of the inquiline social parasite Acromyrmex insinuator can join nest-founding queens of its host, the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior	1
Social eavesdropping by stingless bees	1
Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests	1
Survey of the exocrine glands in workers of the ant Leptanilla clypeata	1
A potential risk and management of feces in the queenless ant	1
Nest-founding by red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta) is not limited by Solenopsis thief ant populations	0
A new (irregular) section and the IUSSI accounts	0
Forest logging is associated with shape of males and gynes in the wood ant Formica aquilonia	0
Nest protection and foraging behaviour in solitary and social nests of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima	0
Relative colony size of parabiotic species demonstrates inversion with growth	0
Reproductive inefficiency and increased behavioral variation are associated with large group size in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma	0
My early encounters with Ants and Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory	0
Association of giant ant Dinoponera quadriceps nests with termite mounds and landscape variables in a Caatinga dry forest, Brazil	0
Red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta buren workers do not have ovaries	0
A novel bee host cannot detect a microbial parasite, in contrast to its original host	0
Dominance hierarchy limits resilience in the endangered queenless ant Dinoponera lucida	0
Best paper announcement for 2020	0
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)	0
Age-related task progression in two Australian Tetragonula stingless bees	0
In-nest behavior by tandem recruiters of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus: effects of context and quality	0
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites	0
Correction to: Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	0
Intraspecific competition for a nest and its implication for the fitness of relocating ant colonies	0
Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant	0
Intercastes in the ant Aphaenogaster rugulosa (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): morphological variation and adaptive potential	0
Correction: To mine or not to mine—asked the Drosophila larva	0
In memoriam Christian Peeters (1956–2020)	0
The European earwig: a model species for studying the (early) evolution of social life	0
Newly emerged bumblebees are highly susceptible to gut parasite infection	0
Diversity of butterfly–ant symbioses in the neotropical genus Ectatomma (Formicidae: Ectatomminae)	0
Defensive biting by Tetragonisca angustula is dangerous but not suicidal	0
A putatively new ant species from the Cataglyphis cursor group displays low levels of polyandry with standard sexual reproduction	0
The international union for the study of social insects’ Hamilton Award	0
Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata	0
Optimal fissioning strategies of social insects with respect to colony dynamics and nest founding probability	0
Occupation of twigs by ants in the leaf litter: is there a relationship between the morphology of the castes and the entrance hole?	0
Phylogeography of the imperiled Comanche Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex comanche)	0
Comparative genetic study of the colony structure and colony spatial distribution between the higher termite Amitermes parvulus and the lower, subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes in an urban	0
Emergence of keystone individuals in the social networks of the ant Camponotus fellah	0
Drivers of seed preferences and dispersal by granivorous ants in a semiarid grassland	0
The social life of silk wasps	0
No major difference in growth and productivity between monogynous and polygynous colonies in the ant Myrmecina graminicola	0
Influence of landscape on foraging range and homing ability of afrotropical stingless bees	0
Brood thermogenesis effects on the thermal dynamics in stingless bee nests (Melipona scutellaris)	0
To mine or not to mine—asked the Drosophila larva	0
Honey bees perform fine-scale detailing that continuously reduces comb area after nest expansion	0
Ants (Lasius niger) deposit more pheromone close to food sources and further from the nest but do not attempt to update erroneous pheromone trails	0
Cog in the migration wheel: migratory waggle dances are necessary but not sufficient in the nest movement of the Asian giant honeybee Apis dorsata	0
Workers require more cognitive skills than soldiers, queens and kings	0
Natural history and daily rhythm activity of the myrmecophytic ant, Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	0
On the distribution and diversity of tissue-specific somatic mutations in honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones	0
Relatedness within colonies of three North American species of carpenter ants (Subgenus: Camponotus) and a comparison with relatedness estimates across Formicinae	0
Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers	0
Conference contributions by section members of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) at international IUSSI conferences (1952–2022) are not in accordance with membership numb	0

Olfactory associative learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	0
Correction: Busy as a bee—or not?	0
Ecology of Pheidole oxyops Forel, 1908, a dominant ant in neotropical savannas	0
Eversible tentacle organs in caterpillar–ant communication: do they signal partner quality in polyommatinae lycaenid butterflies?	0
Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	0
Formica francoeuri responds to pheromones and defensive chemical cues of social bees	0
An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi	0
Going back to the basics: the use of cricket powder as a protein supplement in artificial ant diets	0
Correction to: Visual associative learning and olfactory preferences of the greater banded hornet, Vespa tropica	0
Response of a temperate grassland ant community to burning	0
Busy as a bee—or not?	0
Predatory ants invading sea turtle nests on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia	0
Climatological influences on flight activity of Lepidotrigona flavibasis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	0
Better fed wasps are more selfish	0
The influence of illumination regimes on the structure of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) community composition in urban habitats	0
Evolution of meconium removal from cocoons in ants	0
Molecular mechanisms of task allocation in workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta	0
Striking variation: a universal scale for worker aggression in ants	0
Functional morphology of the Dufour gland in the queenless ant Dinoponera quadriceps	0
Are wood-feeding and fungus-growing termites so different? Comparison of the organization and properties of Microcerotermes pakistanicus and Odontotermes obesus soil constructions in the Western Ghats	0
Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants	0
Indicator ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of disturbance in Mexico	0
Communal behavior and its exploitation in Tamalia social gall aphids (Aphididae: Tamaliinae)	0
Nest architecture, worker reproduction, and polygyny in the ponerine ant Harpegnathos venator	0
A new host for a new Rossomyrmex minuchae population	0
Endopolyploidy and its role in shaping ant castes and colony dynamics: a study on Camponotus aff. balzani (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	0
Simple method for combining multiple-loci marker genotypes to estimate diploid male proportion, with an application to a threatened bumble bee population in Japan	0
Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating	0
Best Paper Announcement for 2023	0
Best paper announcement for 2021	0
The social life of Drosophila melanogaster	0
Bee-Ing positive about wasp-negative media reporting: the opinions of scientists and their influence on the media	0
Colony structure, population structure, and sharing of foraging trees in the ant Myrmecia nigriceps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	0
Foraging time and neighborhood competition in Aphaenogaster ants: a field experiment	0
Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations	0
Older, but not wiser: social wasp colony defensive behavior decreases with time, not experience	0
When earlier and fatter is better	0
A natural history account of Megalomyrmex ayri Brandão, 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)	0
Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999	0
Correction to: Mutagenesis mediated by CRISPR/Cas9 in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta	0
The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)	0
Variability of nest relocation behavior among acorn ant species	0
Find and then forget: the pheromone dilemma in ants	0
Life history changes associated with myrmecophily: high longevity but low fecundity in a tiny cricket Myrmecophilus quadrispinus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) living in ant nests	0
Differences in the occurrence of leg glands between the social parasite S. mutica (Brown, 1949) and other Strumigenys ants	0
Colony size affects the induction of sterile soldier production in the eusocial aphid Ceratovacuna japonica (Hemiptera: Aphididae)	0
Effect of soldiers on vibroacoustic alarm response in workers of subterranean termites (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)	0
Reassembly of ground-dwelling ant communities in reforestation plots in SW Costa Rica	0
Ovary activation correlates with the reproductive potential of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers if they are in a foreign colony	0
Phylogeographic structure of Italian Formica pratensis (Retzius 1783) populations in the framework of the species Eurasian range	0
What if you can control whom your queen mates with?	0
Best paper announcement for 2022	0
Do diesel exhaust particles in pollen affect colony founding in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris?	0
Financial report: international union for the study of social insects 2023	0
Size and shape in Formica ant workers	0
Stylopized hornets (Vespa, Vespidae) as preferred hosts of the parasitic mite Charletonia southcotti (Erythraeidae, Acari)	0
Does the history of option quality affect nest site choice in the Acorn ant?	0
Quit bugging me: phorid fly parasitoids affect expression of an immune gene in foraging fire ant workers	0
Effects of simulated tropical heat waves during development on the morphological and reproductive traits of Africanized honey bee	0
The discovery of mixed colonies in Temnothorax ants supports the territoriality hypothesis of dulotic social parasite evolution in myrmicine ants	0