Category:Temporary parasite
Temporary social parasites establish new colonies with the assistance of a host species. A queen of the parasite enters the nest of the host and chemically tricks the host workers into adopting her. The intruding queen kills or drives off the host queen and begins to lay her own eggs. Host workers remain in the colony and tend both their own eggs and the eggs of the new queen. Over time the host workers are replaced with workers from the new queen and the colony becomes completely populated by the new queen's offspring. For further details see Social Parasitism.
Pages in category "Temporary parasite"
The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
F
- Formica adamsi
- Formica aquilonia
- Formica bruni
- Formica brunneonitida
- Formica caucasicola
- Formica dakotensis
- Formica difficilis
- Formica dirksi
- Formica exsecta
- Formica exsectoides
- Formica fennica
- Formica foreli
- Formica forsslundi
- Formica frontalis
- Formica fukaii
- Formica indianensis
- Formica knighti
- Formica lugubris
- Formica manchu
- Formica mesasiatica
- Formica microgyna
- Formica morsei
- Formica nepticula
- Formica nevadensis
- Formica obscuripes
- Formica pisarskii
- Formica polyctena
- Formica postoculata
- Formica pratensis
- Formica pressilabris
- Formica querquetulana
- Formica rufa
- Formica scitula
- Formica spatulata
- Formica suecica
- Formica truncorum
- Formica ulkei
- Formica uralensis
- Formica yessensis
L
- Lasius aphidicola
- Lasius arizonicus
- Lasius bicornis
- Lasius californicus
- Lasius carniolicus
- Lasius citrinus
- Lasius claviger
- Lasius coloradensis
- Lasius distinguendus
- Lasius fuliginosus
- Lasius interjectus
- Lasius jensi
- Lasius latipes
- Lasius meridionalis
- Lasius mexicanus
- Lasius minutus
- Lasius mixtus
- Lasius murphyi
- Lasius nipponensis
- Lasius occidentalis
- Lasius orientalis
- Lasius plumopilosus
- Lasius pogonogynus
- Lasius pubescens
- Lasius rabaudi
- Lasius reginae
- Lasius sabularum
- Lasius spathepus
- Lasius speculiventris
- Lasius subglaber
- Lasius subumbratus
- Lasius umbratus