Cooperative behaviours are common among social insects such as bees, wasps, ants
ID: 167134 • Letter: C
Question
Cooperative behaviours are common among social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites they have not been reported from insect species that use aggressive mimicry manipulate and exploit prey or hosts. Here we show that larval aggregations of the blister beetle Meloe franciscanut. which parasitize nests of the bee Mabropodia pallida cooperate to explicit the sexual communication system of their hosts by producing a chemical cure that mimics the sex pheromone of the female bee, Male bees are lured to larval attach to the male bees. The larvae transfer to female bees during mating and subsequently are transported to the nests of their hosts. To mimic the chemical and visual signals of female bees effectively the parasite larvae must cooperate, emphasizing the adaptively value of cooperation between larvae The aggressive chemical mimicry by the larvae and their subsequent transport to their hosts nests by the hosts themselves provide an efficient solutions to the problem of locating a critical but scare resource in a harsh environment.Explanation / Answer
Null hypothesis is already gained knoweldge from the earlier work ie which the value obtained from earlier research. Alternative hypothesis is what you try to explain new or what you propose a context which leads to that value. Here in this paper, Cooperative behaviour of insects and some insects also show aggressive mimicry by exploiting the prey or host. So this is null hypothesis which is already proved. Alternate hypothesis is , the insects not only mimic to kill host but also mimics for availing resources that are not available in harsh environment.Hence this is alternate hypothesis. Here also they say that organisms mimic but the reason is what they propose is different.