Seasonal Phenology and Colony Longevity Patterns in a Predatory Social Wasp

IF 0.5 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q4 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Western North American Naturalist Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI:10.3398/064.082.0113
David T. Rankin, K. Loope, E. Wilson-Rankin
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Abstract. Social wasps play critical ecological roles in an ecosystem, providing a diversity of services and some disservices. Yellowjacket wasps (Vespula spp.) in particular are well known for shaping arthropod communities via predation and competition for resources. In part due to their sociality and large colony sizes, Vespula can have a profound ecological impact on local communities. Such effects can be magnified when colonies exhibit a perennial life history, in which a colony will overwinter, persist for more than one year, and become orders of magnitude larger in size compared to typical annual colonies. Despite growing interest in the factors that influence colony success, we currently lack the ability to predict when yellowjackets may have a high-abundance or outbreak year. This highlights the need for a critical understanding of the phenological patterns of foraging activity, colony distribution, and senescence. Here, we quantify the seasonal activity and foraging rates of 123 colonies of the western yellowjacket, V. pensylvanica, in its native range over 4 consecutive years. Average colony longevity was about 1 month longer than previously reported for this species, and colonies with later peaks in activity and higher average traffic rates persisted longer into the winter. Longer-lived colonies tended to cluster together within a year, but not between years. We found 3 perennial colonies (2.4% of all colonies), and they exhibited tenfold higher peak traffic rates compared to annual colonies. By identifying temporal and spatial patterns in survivorship and colony longevity, we gain insight into the factors associated with prolonged survival time and increased likelihood of overwintering in yellowjacket wasps.
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捕食性社会黄蜂的季节物候和群体寿命模式
摘要群居黄蜂在生态系统中扮演着重要的生态角色,提供多种服务和一些危害。黄马蜂(Vespula spp.)尤其以通过捕食和资源竞争形成节肢动物群落而闻名。部分由于它们的社会性和庞大的群体规模,Vespula可以对当地社区产生深远的生态影响。当群体表现出多年生的生活史时,这种影响会被放大,在这个生活史中,一个群体会越冬,持续一年以上,并且与典型的一年生群体相比,其规模会增加几个数量级。尽管人们对影响种群成功的因素越来越感兴趣,但我们目前缺乏预测黄马甲高丰度或爆发年份的能力。这突出了对觅食活动、群体分布和衰老的物候模式的批判性理解的必要性。在此,我们连续4年量化了123个西部黄马甲在其原生地的季节活动和觅食率。该物种的平均群体寿命比以前报道的要长1个月左右,并且活动高峰较晚,平均交通率较高的群体持续时间更长。寿命较长的蜂群往往在一年内聚集在一起,而不是在几年之间聚集。我们发现了3个多年生菌落(占所有菌落的2.4%),它们的峰值流量比一年生菌落高10倍。通过确定生存和群体寿命的时空模式,我们深入了解了黄马蜂生存时间延长和越冬可能性增加的相关因素。
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Western North American Naturalist
Western North American Naturalist 环境科学-生态学
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0.90
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39
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>36 weeks
期刊介绍: The Western North American Naturalist places neither restriction nor preference on manuscripts within the disciplines of the biological sciences. Each issue treats diverse taxa from the perspectives of various disciplines (e.g., ecology, population dynamics, behavior, systematics, anatomy, and physiology).
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