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	Insect Behaviour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Social behaviour in insects has evolved over millions of years and is common in many insects today, especially, those insects that live in colonies In colonies, different members of the colony are specialized for various tasks by their morphologic as well as behavioural differences.
		Reproductive females are referred to as queens and workers may be sterile males and females (termites) or sterile females (Hymenoptera) and are involved with support, protection, and maintenance of the colony, and their reproductive organs are often degenerate.
		As the queen ages, or if she dies, the amount of caste-regulating pheromone in the hive decreases and therefore the workers begin to feed the food for queen ("royal jelly"), to several female larvae that are developing in the hive.
	www.science.mcmaster.ca /Biology/insect/behaviour.htm (588 words)

	Bee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The queen is the female honey bee that lays eggs.
		A new queen is also needed if the old queen and part of the colony decide to leave and build a new hive.
		A few days after the new queen cells are covered over with wax, many of the workers and the old queen leave the hive as a swarm.
	www.worldbook.com /features/insects/html/bee.html (3776 words)

	OBA--Sales-Service: Teachers Kit
		The queen is the mother of all the honeybees in the hive.
		An estimated 80 percent of insect crop pollination is accomplished by the honeybee.
		The queen is the mother of all the honeybees in the colony.
	www.ontariobee.com /4_resources/teachers.htm (3741 words)

	Fire Ant Research Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fletcher and Blum (1983) found that the presence of a single queen (monogyny) or of multiple queens (polygyny) in a colony of fire ant colonies is regulated by workers in response to queen pheromone.
		In addition, we demonstrated that queen extract placed in soy bean oil, the carrier in commercially available insecticide baits, was effective in inhibiting winged virgin queens from becoming reproductively active, indicating that the active compounds are relatively stable and could be successfully incorporated into a bait for control of fire ants.
		Primer pheromones are used by nearly all highly eusocial insects to regulate the development and reproduction of colony members and therefore hold great promise for use as effective bioregulators to control populations of social insect pests, such as imported fire ants.
	www.utexas.edu /research/bfl/research/vargo.html (1981 words)

	Hymenoptera
		A young queen feeds the first batch of grubs on her own saliva, but as soon as these first young workers become adult they take over the building and running of the colony, leaving the queen to devote herself to egg-laying.
		All the nest building and food gathering is done by the workers; the queen remains in the nest (or hive) throughout her life, continuously laying eggs, and is tended and fed by the workers.
		New queens and drones are produced from time to time, usually when the colony is about to swarm or when the resident queen is failing and about to die.
	www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk /hymen.htm (1688 words)

	Cops with Six Legs: Science News Online, March 19, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Punishment among insects is meted out by ordinary workers—and sometimes the queen herself—says biologist Tom Wenseleers, who has watched dozens of hours of fl-and-white videos from infrared security cameras that he's trained on nests of tree wasps.
		Some insect colonies produce many queens, most of which are killed by workers before they have an opportunity to form colonies of their own.
		The queen lays all her eggs, whether they'll end up as workers or queens, in cells of the same size, which are half to two-thirds full of liquid food.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20050319/bob8.asp (2692 words)

	Honeybee
		The queen is much longer that the other bees because she needs a long abdomen for laying eggs.
		The queen gives off a special scent, called a pheromone, which lets the other bees know when she is near.
		Choose a few workers to be queen's attendants (form a circle around queen), some to be nurse bees, some to be housekeepers, a few to be wax makers, and two to be guard bees.
	www.ent.iastate.edu /zoo/lessonplans/honeybee.html (2552 words)

	Insect Queen, Reserve Member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
		She grew insect antennae to send and receive "vibratory" messages and turned into a centipede.
		One day, she heard an emergency on the radio then wrapped Clark Kent in a cocoon, exposing her own identity as Insect Queen but sure that Superboy would have to expose his identity by bursting free to answer the emergency,.
		As her power is not natural and dependant upon a device, if the bio-ring falls off her finger while in insect form, she is frozen in that form until she puts it on again (AD 355).
	members.shaw.ca /legion_roll_call/reserve/reservists/insect_queen (911 words)

	Conflict in insect societies
		While a queen transmits her genes equally efficiently through both sexes, the workers transmit their genes, as a result of the haplodiploid sex determining system, three times as efficiently through sister queens than through brothers.
		This type of conflict originates from the fact that every individual worker is always more highly related to its own offspring than to queen produced males, whereas the queen in turn is always more highly related to her own offspring than to the worker's offspring.
		Not only can this create a conflict between the queens and the workers; when the queen is multiply mated or when several queens co-exist in the nest, there will also be a conflict among the workers themselves over who will reproduce.
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /bio/ento/conflict.htm (1084 words)

	The Soul of the White Ant - Marais - Ch9
		When the insect has shed its skin for the last time and is full-grown, the wings begin to grow from these buds with a kind of hinge which allows for the greatest possible range of movements.
		The insect appears to be able to discard the wings by a voluntary movement of the wing itself.
		These signals cease immediately the queen is destroyed and all directed activity ceases, even in the outlying sections of the termitary and even when these sections have been completely isolated over a long period by a metal plate.
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/Marais1/whiteantch9.html (3948 words)

	"Aunty H's Insect Spirits: the Invae"
		Insect shaman may craft magical foci (often aspected by the invae 's power); when bonded such power foci artifically increase the magical potential and allow more (or more powerful) invae to be summoned.
		The Queen constantly seeks her freedom from the insect shaman, for once summoned she no longer needs the metahuman magician to call her kin to serve her.
		Insect spirits in Chicago are noted to be using more "good merges," and perhaps having developed a power to influence people's thoughts, described as a buzzing in the head.
	ancientfiles.dumpshock.com /invae.html (2070 words)

	Microbee Pest Control Insect Information
		Each queen produces about 350 eggs which hatch in a week to give legless larvae which are fed by the queen and tended by the workers.
		There are so few workers in the nest that individuals cannot afford to sacrifice themselves without potentially reducing the number of queens which the colony produces this reduces the long term survival chances of their genes.
		She flies round flowers and plants collecting both insects and grubs and in the nest, constructs a small golf-ball sized nest with a circle of paper cells hanging down inside it, laying an egg in each.
	www.microbee.co.uk /Public/insects.html (7011 words)

	Insect Lesson Plans
		Have the teams conduct research on each insect throughout the unit to be shared at the end of a unit in a five-minute oral presentation.
		An insect book will be turned in by each team to be used on an interactive bulletin board.
		Suggestions include: Bug Buddy Badge, Entomologist Award, and Official Insect Inspector Present a magnifying glass to the classroom for them to use during the year whenever the are ready to inspect bugs.
	www.libsci.sc.edu /miller/Insect.htm (3398 words)

	Insect Tattoos - Body Art
		A rose on the hip or a butterfly on the ankle are considered either classics for women’s tattoos, or they are thought of as having been done to death.
		One of the best ways to research insect tattoos is to go to the library and go through the section of children’s books.
		Those books are often full of large, color images of the various insects and are good for a tattooist to use as a reference or inspiration.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art32624.asp (598 words)

	EVOLUTION: ON THE POLICING OF INSECT SOCIETIES
		Because queens are generally larger than workers and need more food, adult workers can control whether a larva will develop into a queen by controlling her food supply.
		Thus, although a few larvae are reared into queens, with a good chance of heading a colony, thousands of their less fortunate sisters are reared into workers.
		Social insects, in contrast, are not physically connected, and their colonies give us examples of organismal entities that are dispersed in space.
	scienceweek.com /2005/sc050218-3.htm (1970 words)

	Insect Police Crack Down on Slackers -- Schilthuizen 2004 (825): 3 -- sciencenow
		In many species of social insects, workers try to lay eggs on the side, says evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
		Accepted wisdom among sociobiologists has always been that such policing happens because workers are more related (and hence more loyal) to their queen's offspring than to other workers' sons.
		When queens have many consorts, workers are less related to the bastard sons of other workers (their half-nephews) than when the queen mates just once.
	sciencenow.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/2004/825/3 (404 words)

	Apiculture and Social Insect laboratory - Angus Stokes apicultural research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, the initial stocking of the hive in spring and subsequent release of workers and queen has to be done with great care to prevent the worker bees from absconding.
		Virgin queens and the target drones are propagated, brought to these locations and allowed to mate.
		It would be commercially advantageous if queens mated at the end of the summer could be overwintered and sold the following April and May. This would reduce the need for importation of non-native honeybee queens.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~taplab/asres.html (601 words)

	Insect Worksheets
		The female of this insect sucks blood and the male eats nectar and water.
		It lives in highly organized societies called colonies - the queen is in charge of laying eggs; her mates do not carry any significant social roles other than mating with the queen, and the workers are responsible for fetching food and running errands.
		The nest of this insect is a large mound with chimneys that tower high above the ground.
	www.edhelper.com /Insects1828.htm (1731 words)

	Superboy No. 124
		After discovering her new power, Lana fashions herself a costume and becomes the Insect Queen of Smallville and stops a robbery.
		Lana reveals her secret identity when she decides to use her power to keep Clark Kent from springing into action as Superboy, to prove her long-standing suspicion that he is the Boy of Steel.
		Clark outwits Lana again, though, and Lana puts her costume and ring in, er, mothballs, and wonders if she will be the Insect Queen again one day soon.
	members.shaw.ca /silver-age_chronology/superboy/sb124.htm (183 words)

	Heavenly Hive (Duelist Central) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Insect Princess goes in for the swoop; kills them and BAM! 2400 attack now..Alot of monsters can't really stand to loose that 500 Attack and that's how this easily removes those pesky beatdowns.
		I was going to play a Metal Armor Bug and an Insect Queen in there..But then I figured they went against most of the theme..And Insect Queen is alot harder to play compared to her daughter, the Princess.
		Use insect barrier along with parasite paracide, jade insect whistle and mask of restrict switch all monsters to defence to stop them kamikazi-ing the parasite and have a cup of tea.
	s3.invisionfree.com /Yugioh_Reloaded/ar/t1510.htm (784 words)

	ABC Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We have what look like volcanic eruptions with millions of flying termite queens taking to the air, the frightening thing is when you see all the shed wings at the bottom of your windows the next morning and realise that millions of termite queens are crawling around looking for a place to set up home.
		Of course, the queen is a lot different to the workers so I am only guessing what type of ant she is.
		I discovered something rather remarkable - many insects and spiders were sheltering from the sun by staying on the bark of the back (relative to the sun) of Angophora costata.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/newposts/39/topic39875.shtm (5635 words)

	Most Spectacular Mating
		The extensively cultivated insect, Apis mellifera is judged to have the most spectacular mating because a “comet” of drones pursues the female with the winner forfeiting a portion of his phallus at the end of coitus and dying soon thereafter ( Woyke and Ruttner 1958, Winston 1987).
		The queen is pursued by a large swarm of drones, “drone comets,” where copulation occurs ( Winston 1987).
		(1979), utilizing a tethered queen, report that the drone clasps the queen in a dorso-ventral position and everts his endophallus directly into the queen’s sting chamber.
	ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu /chap08.htm (866 words)

	Insect Societies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The integrated division of labor within the insect colony (with the various castes of workers and soldiers) has been achieved by selection of single queens.
		Note that in none of the social insects are the sterile workers and/or soldiers genetically identical, nor do the castes differ systematically in their genetic composition.
		The differentiation into worker, soldier, and queen is achieved by differential feeding and pheromone exposure in early development.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /http://pes/INSECSOC.html (312 words)

	Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm Strategy Guide - IGNguides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Apparently, during all their activity in the area, the Insectoids uncovered the Tear and now the Insect Queen has it in her lair.
		Kill the insects and avoid the caustic puddles as you move through this area.
		Although these insects are tough, they are easily defeated if you stick to the basics of guarding and using combos.
	guidesarchive.ign.com /guides/11935/que.html (902 words)

	Maine Symbols, Insect: Honeybee - SHG Resources
		Honey bees are social insects, with a marked division of labor between the various types of bees in the colony.
		A two-day-old larva is selected by the workers to be reared as the queen.
		Workers feed the queen and larvae, guard the hive entrance and help to keep the hive cool by fanning their wings.
	www.shgresources.com /me/symbols/insect (878 words)

	Department of Biology, Queen's University
		Neuropeptides are produced by the nervous system and function as hormones to control a range of essential processes, including muscle activity, the production of other hormones essential for development, metamorphosis, reproduction and the mobilization of energy reserves.
		Several families of neuropeptide sequences are specific to insects and thus may provide an opportunity to develop novel means of bio-rationale insect pest control.
		In particular, we have focused on neuropeptide families and their receptors that appear insect-specific and whose lack of expression and/or inappropriate expression may have catastrophic effects on the physiology and/or behaviour of insects.
	biology.queensu.ca /faculty/bendena.html (648 words)

	Insect Queen
		Concentrating deeply for all she was worth, Lana sprouted antennae in her insect form.
		Almost ten minutes passed in a feeding frenzy before she sensed the insects responding to her summons.
		Gasping and wheezing, Lana fell to the ground, reverting to her human form as a slender foot, clad in a fetching green high heeled boot covered her abused throat.
	dannfan.50megs.com /InsectQueen.html (2940 words)

	interrogation report: Dave Wolverton, The Golden Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In particular, the insect queen has taken control of the Omni-mind, a world- sized computer with a special mesh headset used to house all human knowledge and to enable the wearer to serve as the ultimate judge for all human disputes.
		Everynne is the clone of the late, defeated wearer of the Omni-mind, and she is on a quest with her bodyguard to defeat the Dronon queen through ritual combat.
		Wolverton easily describes the interesting technology that he has created, but often the characters make judgements or guesses about information that should be available through the digital assistants most of the characters wear.
	www.xmission.com /~jeffress/reports/b/B199911.html (398 words)

	Bethurum - How Bushwhacker Insect Control Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bushwhacker insect control is not a contact poison.
		It doesn't instantly kill a few insects on the surface while the queen and the rest of the mound move to safety a few yards away.
		Bushwhacker insect control is revolutionary in that it infiltrates the nest and doesn't kill any insects until it has been passed on to the queen.
	www.bethurum.com /pesticides/works.html (143 words)

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