PARASITES AND SOCIAL INSECTS

Authors
SCHMIDHEMPEL P
Citation
P. Schmidhempel, PARASITES AND SOCIAL INSECTS, Apidologie, 26(3), 1995, pp. 255-271
Citations number
116
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture,Entomology
Journal title
Apidologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00448435
Volume
26
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
255 - 271
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-8435(1995)26:3<255:PASI>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A short review shows that social insects have many parasites on larvae and adults but few on eggs. Social organisation simultaneously affect s parasite transmission within and between colonies. Overall, the biol ogy of social insects may be favourable to an epidemic, but such a pro cess may quickly die out in the host population.