Social parasites exploit societies, rather than organisms, and rear their brood in social insect colonies at the expense of their hosts, triggering a coevolutionary process that may affect host social
Social insects recognize their nestmates by means of a cuticular hydrocarbon signature shared by colony members, but how nest signature changes across time has been rarely tested in longitudinal studi
Additional tables for Prebus MM, Georgiev BB, van de Kamp T, Hamann E, Baker I, Rabeling C. 2023. "The rediscovery of the putative ant social parasite Manica parasitica syn. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formici
Social parasites exploit societies, rather than organisms, and rear their brood in social insect colonies at the expense of their hosts, triggering a coevolutionary process that may affect host social