11/11: Diversity, plasticity and evolution of communication in insect societies (part II)

11/11 - Diversity, plasticity and evolution of communication in insect societies (part II) (parallel session)

 

ORGANISERS: Lucas Pietro Casacci a, Alessandro Cini b, Volker Nehring c

a University of Turin, Italy; b University College London, UK; c University of Freiburg, Germany 

 
CONTACT: volker.nehring@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

 

SUMMARY:

Communication plays an important role in organizing the cooperation within insect societies, and intuitively the complexity of communication increases with the complexity of the societies. Pheromones and other semiochemicals have always been assumed to be the major cues of communication because nests are typically dark and crowded environments. In recent years, however, new evidence has suggested that also visual and vibroacoustic communication is widely used by social insects, and the evidence supporting a correlation between communicative and social complexity is not unequivocal. This has generated many questions about the plasticity and evolution of communication in insect societies. To what extent are the different sensory channels used in different taxa, and under which circumstances do they integrate? What messages are conveyed, and how? To what degree are these complex communication landscapes variable between and within species, are they plastic under changing social and environmental conditions, and how far is the social form predicting or predicted by communication?  This symposium aims at discussing these aspects of social insect communication, spanning the different sensory channels and ranging from primitively social to eusocial species. The goal is to give room for all those interested in speaking, and listening, about the diversity, plasticity and evolution of social insect communication.

 

ZOOM LINK:
 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89797092692?pwd=RjZBemUyV2VwalJQVkRlYmFHZUVRQT09

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PROGRAMME (London time, pm):

 

Time

  Speaker

Title

12:00 

Tomer Czaczkes

Hard limits to cognitive flexibility: ants can learn to ignore but not to avoid pheromone trails

12:15

Ehud Fonio

Combining multiple communication channels during cooperative transport in the longhorn crazy ant (Paratrechina longicornis)

12:30

Ebi Antony George

Beyond response thresholds - the role of probability and intensity in social communication in honey bees

12:45

Rafael Carvalho da Silva

Do eggs act as alterantive source sof communication in Mischocyttarus wasps?

13:00

Cintia Akemi Oi

Policing and hydrocarbons - how do wasps recognize the eggs?

13:15

Helena Ferreira

Effects of juvenile hormone in fertility and fertility-signaling in workers of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris

13:30

Ricardo Caliari Oliveira

Constraints on social cheating in the common wasp Vespula vulgaris

13:45

Rosie Knapp

Understanding the mechanism of queen mandibular pheromone's sterilizing effects on workers of the advanced eusocial honey bee

14:00

Julia Mariette

Functional study of the queen pheromone receptor OR11 in honey bees within the genus Apis

14:15

David Sillam-Dussès

Courtsip behavior confusion in the invasive termite species Coptotermes formosanus and C. gestroi

14:30

Silvio Erler

Disease-associated odour profiles of infected honey bee larvae

14:45

Erik Frank

How to communicate an infected wound inside an ant nest?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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