Homing after Displacement in Open or Closed Containers by the Digger Wasp Argogorytes carbonarius (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

  1. Hermann Schöne†,*,
  2. Anthony C. Harris†,
  3. Hedwig Schöne†,
  4. Pauline A. Mahalski†

Article first published online: 26 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00465.x

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Ethology

Ethology

Volume 95, Issue 2, pages 152–156, January-December 1993

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Schöne, H., Harris, A. C., Schöne, H. and Mahalski, P. A. (1993), Homing after Displacement in Open or Closed Containers by the Digger Wasp Argogorytes carbonarius (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Ethology, 95: 152–156. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00465.x

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Seewiesen, and Otago Museum, Dunedin

  1. †

    Schöne, H., Harris, A. C., Schöne, H. & Mahalski, P. A. 1993: Homing after displacement in open or closed containers by the digger wasp Argogorytes carbonarius (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Ethology 95, 152–156.

*Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, D-82319 Seewiesen, Post Starnberg.

  • †

    Schöne, H., Harris, A. C., Schöne, H. & Mahalski, P. A. 1993: Homing after displacement in open or closed containers by the digger wasp Argogorytes carbonarius (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Ethology 95, 152–156.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 26 APR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 26 APR 2010
  3. Received: February 17, 1993; Accepted: June 4, 1993

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Abstract

Initial orientation and homing time were recorded in Argogorytes carbonarius after displacement in “open” and “closed” containers during two periods: “first” release dates and “later” release dates. At the later releases “closed” wasps homed much better than at first releases and better than “open” wasps. At the first releases, on the other hand, the “open” wasps homed (slightly) better than the “closed” wasps. An interpretation relates the better homing of “closed” wasps at the later trials to route learning at the first trials and discusses the differences and peculiarities of homing from familiar terrain and of home orientation by path integration.

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