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"Dr. James H. Hunt" <C4926@UMSLVMA> |
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Dr. James H. Hunt Department of Biology
phone 314-553-6209 University of Missouri - St. Louis
fax 314-553-6233 St. Louis, MO 63121
Bitnet C4926@UMSLVMA U.S.A.
Dear BEE-L subscribers:
I need help. For the upcoming IUSSI Congress in Bangalore I am
co-organizing (with Christine Nalepa of North Carolina State U.) a
symposium entitled: "The Role of Nourishment in the Ontogeny and
Evolution of Insect Societies." Christine works on wood roaches; I
work mostly on wasps. We have speakers on subsocial insects, termites,
legionary ants, and other taxa. Our coverage of bees, however, is
weak. Rinus Sommeijer (Univ. Utrecht) is a probable contributor on
Meliponines, and I have a possible speaker in mind for Apis (though I
welcome your comments/suggestions on Apis/Bombus). I have no leads
at all, though, on non-apine bees. Who might be appropriate to
review the role of nourishment in the social biology of halictines
and/or allodapines?
Possible topics for such a review would include: food sources
(e.g., seasonality, abundance, reliability); nourishment (e.g.,
developmental constraints); provisioning (e.g., behavior, differential
provisioning and caste); trophallaxis; and the relation between
nourishment and ovarian development.
A two-page summary of the presentation would be published in the
proceedings of the Bangalore Congress. Preliminary investigation has
suggested the likelihood that the full symposium proceedings, plus
a couple of additional contributions, may be published as a book after
the congress.
Any comments? Suggestions? A volunteer?
What about Bombus?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Jim Hunt
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