Social Insect Populations

Author : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483266374

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Social Insect Populations focuses on observations on the populations of social insects, including egg production, nesting characteristics, and food collection. The book first underscores the evolution of social life and organization and control of social insect populations. The text also ponders on the numbers and density of social insect populations, as well as methods of estimation, numbers in colonies, and density and biomass. Egg production, stationary populations, nest size, productivity, and survival are discussed. The manuscript discusses reproduction and brood periodicity of social insect populations. Discussions focus on reproduction by single and group of queens and reciprocity among bees, wasps, and ants. The text also examines nest sites and shelters, mating structures, and food collection of social insects. Discussions focus on food supply, intergeneric competition, predators and parasites, and population regulation among bees, wasps, termites, and ants. The book is a dependable reference for readers interested in the study of social insect populations.

Author : Brian M. V.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:770204006

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Social Insect Populations by Brian M. V. Pdf

Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:65028621

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Social Insect Populations by Michael Vaughan Brian Pdf

Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Insect societies
ISBN : OCLC:9597571

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Social Insect Populations by Michael Vaughan Brian Pdf

Author : Michael D. Breed,Charles D. Michener,Howard E. Evans
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000314892

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The Biology Of Social Insects by Michael D. Breed,Charles D. Michener,Howard E. Evans Pdf

In this book internationally known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information. Particular emphasis is given to the relationships between social insects and humans; sections are devoted to economically important social insects, pollination, foraging, and the role of insects in ecosystems and agroecosystems. The authors also discuss communication, behavior and caste within insect colonies. A special section focuses on the neurobiology of social insects. A series of papers considers the presocial insects, which live in family groups but without caste differences. Also well represented are the fields of sociobiology and the origins and evolution of social behavior. The book will be valuable to agricultural scientists as well as to entomologists, sociobiologists, ecologists, ethologists, and natural historians. Endocrinologists and neurobiologists will also find important new material.

Author : George F. Oster,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691023611

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Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects by George F. Oster,Edward O. Wilson Pdf

In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor. Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems. The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.

Author : William Morton Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317230267

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The Social Insects by William Morton Wheeler Pdf

Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call them ‘social’. Terebrantia, aculeata, wasps, bees, ants, and termites are discussed in a succession of chapters, showing how they have evolved, to how great an extent they have developed, and what are the peculiarities of their evolution. Polymorphism, the Social Medium, Guests and Parasites of the Social Insects, are other subjects discussed in this fascinating book.

Author : Owain Westmacott Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Entomology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924017982830

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The Social Insects by Owain Westmacott Richards Pdf

Author : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400959156

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Social Insects by M. V. Brian Pdf

Here is a guide to the ecology of social insects. It is intended for general ecologists and entomologists as well as for undergraduates and those about to start research on social insects; even the experienced investigator may find the comparison between different groups of social insects illuminating. Most technical terms are translated into common language as far as can be done without loss of accuracy but scientific names are unavoidable. Readers will become familiar with the name even though they cannot visualize the animal and could reflect that only a very few of the total species have been studied so far! References too are essential and with these it should be possible to travel more deeply into the vast research literature, still increasing monthly. When I have cited an author in another author's paper, this implies that I have not read the original and the second author must take responsi bility for accuracy! Many hands and heads have helped to make this book. I thank all my colleagues past and present for their enduring though critical support, and I thank with special pleasure: E. ]. M. Evesham who fashioned the diagrams; ]. Free, D. J. Stradling and]. P. E. C. Darlington who supplied photographs; D. Y. Brian and R. A. Weller who were meticulous on the linguistic side; and G. Frith and R. M. Jones who collated the references. List of plates 1. Fungus combs of Acromyrmex octospinosus and Macrotermes michaelseni. 13 2. Mouthparts of larval Myrmica.

Author : International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ants
ISBN : UOM:39015055710100

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Chemistry and Biology of Social Insects by International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress Pdf

Author : Henry Hermani
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323149792

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Social Insects by Henry Hermani Pdf

Social Insects, Volume I is a part of a four-volume discourse and collection of research on insect sociobiology. This volume covers the “modern theory with certain concepts of insect sociality, particularly through genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary pathways. This book consists of eight chapters, which mostly deal with the sociality of insects and other aspects. The first chapter provides an introduction to the subject of insect sociality. Topics in this chapter include definition of sociality, types of social insects, and insect sociobiology. The next chapter focuses on the origin and evolution of insect sociality and discusses the theories of origin of sociality. The following chapters discuss the aspects of social insects in terms of antiquity and territoriality. Caste differentiation and division of labor is also emphasized, as well as the genetics of sociality. The last two chapters deal with the larvae of the social hymenoptera and the social and evolutionary significance of social insect symbionts. This volume is a good reference for students and teachers in the study of entomology, zoology, and biology.

Author : Wolf Engels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642744907

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Social Insects by Wolf Engels Pdf

Evolution of Castes in Insects l BERNHARD RENSCH The evolution of organisms in the succession of generations has been primarilly achieved through the appearance of new hereditary variants with minor deviations along with the development of stable structures and functions. Harmful mutants were eradicated either immediately or in the subsequent generations through the process of natural selection while unharmful or advantageous ones usually survived. As this process continued, many new races and species developed which possessed structures and functions of a rational nature and which became increasingly independent from their environment. These evolutionary tendencies were also promoted through either geographical, ecological, physiological or genetical isolation of populations. In some phylogenetic lines, there occurred an increase in the number of cells due to additional cellular divisions in the morphogenesis of structures. This opened up the possibility for the development of the division of labour within cellular groups leading to more complicated and consequently more successful functions of tissues and organs. A further advancement in the adaptation of a species to its environment was made possible through specialization for certain functions of whole individuals or groups of individuals.

Author : Hilda Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Exploring the World of Social Insects by Hilda Simon Pdf

Author : Philip Edwin Howse,J.-L. Clement
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Entomology
ISBN : UCAL:B4306685

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Biosystematics of Social Insects by Philip Edwin Howse,J.-L. Clement Pdf

Polymorphism and maintenance factors; Intraspecific variation in ants of the genus formica L.; The taxonomy of the formica rufa group: chaos before order; Phylogenetic relationships and origin of social parasitism in vespidae and in bombus and psithyrus as revealed by enzyme genes; Enzymatic polymorphism in the european population of various reticulitermes species (Isoptera); The pallens morph of the ant leptothorax nylanderi: description, formal genetics, and study of populations; The electropthoretic determination of myrmica rubra microgynes as a social parasite and the possible significance in the evolution of ant social parasites; Aspects of genetic variability in apis mellifera L.; Correlation between b chromosome frequency and solitary phenotype production in crowded populations treated with CO2 in different strains of Locusta migratoria L.; Multivariate statistical aids to the biosystematics of social insects; A biometric investigation of variation of workers of myrmica ruginodis Nylander (formicidae); Revision of the genus messor (Harvesting ants) on a biometrical basis; Morphometric analysis of populations from four different types of mounds of the Indian termite Odontotermes obesus (Rambur); Sex pheromones in social insects: chemotaxonomic potential; Complexity of bumble bee marking pheromones: biochemical, ecological and systematical interpretations; Comparative study of pheromones emitted by different species of myrmica; Variation in the chemistry of the frontal gland secretion of european reticulitermes species; Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic leptothoracini from europe and north america; Systematics and geographical variation in the bombinae; Two mound types of macrotermes near Kajiado (Kenya), intraspecific variation or interspecific divergence?; The abdominal epidermal glands of termites and their phylogenetic sgnificance; The pupa-carrying test as a taxonomic tool in the formica rufa group; Differences in behaviour of geographical races of reticulitermes species; Polyethism and population genetics; Mechanisms of species isolation in termites; Reproductive isolating mechanisms among species of microtermes (Isoptera, termitidae) in the southern Guinea savanna near Mokwa, Nigeria; Résumés.

Author : Robert L. Jeanne
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429712159

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Interindividual Behavioral Variability In Social Insects by Robert L. Jeanne Pdf

This book represents empirical studies of some aspect of the phenomenon of variability in social insect behavior. It illustrates the range of ways colony members can differ from one another and interprets the variability in terms of the external environment, social context, or individual experience.