Use of dufour's gland secretion in nest defence and brood nutrition by Hover Wasps (Hymenoptera, Stenogastrinae)
Social wasps of the subfamily Stenogastrinae produce an abdominal secretion that is used in two distinct biological contexts. First, the secretion plays an important role in larval nutrition where it serves as a substrate in which food is placed by the adults for eventual consumption by the larvae....
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/8270/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002219109900164X |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaya |