Tuesday, 1 August 2006: 1:30 PM-6:00 PM
Palladian (Omni Shoreham Hotel)
Symposium 8: Building behavior and the control of climate in social insects
The aim of this symposium is to cover different aspects of building behavior in socials insects, from its evolutionary origins to its consequences for nest climate and colony development. Topics to be discussed span from mechanistic analyses of building rules (both individual and collective), behavioural responses to climate-relevant environmental variables, effects of nest architecture on colony growth, to theoretical approaches aimed at understanding the organization of collective building.
1:30 PM74The control of nest climate in leaf-cutting ants: environmental factors as organizing cues for building behavior
Martin Bollazzi, Flavio Roces
1:50 PM75The effect of relative humidity on rate of nest construction in Polybia occidentalis
Robert L. Jeanne
2:10 PM76Nets architecture and temperature fluctuation in wood ant (Formica polyctena) in Northern and Central Europe
Jan Frouz
2:30 PM77Modeling dynamic thermal structure of imported fire ant mounds
James T. Vogt, Bradley Wallet
2:50 PM78Glycerol in nest material of red imported fire ants
Jian Chen
3:10 PM Break
3:40 PM79The biological significance of Magnetic Termite mounds
Anna M. Schmidt, Judith Korb
4:00 PM80Emergent Homeostasis and Mound Morphogenesis in Nests of /MACROTERMES/ TERMITES
J. Scott Turner
4:20 PM81Nest thermoregulation in the wild honey bee Apis florea
Julia C. Jones, Benjamin P. Oldroyd
4:40 PM82Variation of thermal requirements for development, habitat preferences and nest temperature along a latitudinal cline in Myrmica ants
Elena Lopatina, Vladilen Kipyatkov
5:00 PM83Response thresholds to rising and falling temperatures in brood-tending Camponotus ants
Flavio Roces, Jasmin Yousif
5:20 PM84Do Sugar Fluids in the Diet of Laboratory Colonies of the Ant Myrmica rubra L. Effect Colony Growth and Nest Architecture?
Elizabeth J.M. Evesham
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