Bald-faced hornet viable brood in the comb fragment. The physical nature of cues mediating natal comb recognition is unknown, though some researchers propose distinct cuticular hydrocarbon profiles allow wasps to recognize nest mates. "D. maculata" is characterized by low paternity, worker reproduction and queen-worker conflict. Divergent genetic interests between workers and their queen cause intra-nest struggle for control, which disrupts social organization. Because of haplodiploidy, workers are unable to mate. However, their unfertilized eggs become males. Workers and their queens are most related to their own sons. Natural selection will therefore favor those workers who produce their own sons rather than rearing
USS Hornet (CV-8) nine torpedoes, many of which failed to explode, and more than 400 rounds from the destroyers and . The destroyers steamed away when a Japanese surface force entered the area. The Japanese destroyers and finally finished off "Hornet" with four Long Lance torpedoes. At 01:35 on 27 October, "Hornet" was finally sunk with the loss of 140 of her sailors. "Hornet" was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 January 1943. However, her name was revived less than a year later when the newly constructed "Kearsarge" was commissioned as . CV8 is honored aboard her namesake, which is now