Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes

Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality

variation and behavioral syndromes

Colin M.WRIGHT;Trevor D.HYLAND;Amanda S.IZZO;Donna R.MCDERMOTT;Elizabeth A.TIBBETTS;Jonathan N.PRUITT

【期刊名称】《动物学报（英文版）》 【年(卷),期】2018(064)001 【

摘

要

】

Consistent

differences

in

behavior

between

individuals,otherwise known as animal personalities,have become a staple in behavioral ecology due to their ability to explain a wide range of phenomena.Social organisms are especially serviceable to animal personality techniques because they can be used to explore behavioral variation at both the individual and group level.Despite the success of personality research in social organisms generally,and social Hymenoptera in particular,social wasps (Vespidae) have received little to no attention in the personality literature.In the present study,we test Polistes metricus (Vespidae;Polistinae) paper wasp queens for the presence of repeatable variation in,and correlations (\syndromes\

between,several

commonly

used

personality

results

metrics:boldness,aggressiveness,exploration,and activity.Our

indicate that P.metricus queens exhibit personalities for all measured traits and correlations between different behavioral measures.Given that paper wasps have served as a model organism for a wide range of