Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The American Naturalist
Volume
121
Issue
4
Publication Date
4-1-1983
First Page
540
Last Page
551
Abstract
Throughout the great class of insects the males almost always emerge from the pupal state before the other sex, so that they generally swarm before any females can be seen. The cause of this difference between the males and females in their periods . . . of maturity is sufficiently obvious. Those males ... which in the spring were first ready to breed ... would leave the largest number of off spring: and these would tend to inherit similar instincts and constitutions. [Darwin (1871, p . 260)).
Recommended Citation
Bulmer, M. G., "The Significance of Protandry in Social Hymenoptera" (1983). Bu. Paper 6.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_bu/6