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Robert Jeanne
Expert on social insect behavior and ecology, especially paper wasps, yellow jackets and hornets
Professor emeritus, entomology College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Home and cell phones available upon request rljeanne@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Nesting behavior in social insects, especially paper wasps
- Communication in social insects
- Division of labor in social insects
- Social insect colonies as complex adaptive systems
Achievements
- Discovery of chemical nest defense behavior and first demonstration of use of swarm-emigration trails by social wasps
- Advances in understanding the structure and function of exocrine glands in wasps
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and American Association for the Advancement of Science