• DOI:10.1007/BF00167329
Corpus ID: 1870057

Trophic aspects of caste determination in Halictus ligatus, a primitively eusocial sweat bee

@article{Richards2004TrophicAO,
  title={Trophic aspects of caste determination in Halictus ligatus, a primitively eusocial sweat bee},
  author={M. H. Richards and L. Packer},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={2004},
  volume={34},
  pages={385-391}
}

• M. H. Richards, L. Packer
• Published 2004
• Biology
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Caste determination in primitively eusocial sweat bees is thought to be due to an interacting suite of factors, including size of the larval provision mass, time of year, and social context of the nest into which a young female emerges. Newly emerged gynes are significantly fatter than newly emerged workers, suggesting the existence of larval caste determination cues. Since photoperiod, temperature, and interactions with nestmates were unlikely to affect larval caste determination, we compared… Expand

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