Jour Fixe: “Can we understand an insect society, and why should we care?”
The Zukunftskolleg invited everyone to the jour fixe led by Raghavendra Gadagkar (Senior Fellow and member of the Scientific Advisory Board).
We invited you to our next Jour fixe on 11 July 2023.
Raghavendra Gadagkar (Senior Fellow and member of the Scientific Advisory Board / DST Year of Science Chair Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) gave a talk entitled "Can we understand an insect society, and why should we care?".
Abstract:
Many species of insects, such as ants, bees and wasps organize themselves into societies comprising a few fertile queens and many sterile workers. Displaying features such as conflict, cooperation, altruism, division of labour, communication and much more, they parallel and sometimes surpass human societies. In this talk he described our attempts to use observations and experiments, to understand the workings of one such tropical insect society, the Indian paper wasp Ropalidia marginata, and reflected on why we should care to understand them.
References:
https://sites.google.com/view/raghavendragadagkar
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raghavendra_Gadagkar