The Biology Of Social Insects

Author : Michael D. Breed,Charles D. Michener,Howard E. Evans
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,6 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known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information.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 : International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : George F. Oster,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691023618

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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 : Emily M. Stewart
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Insect societies
ISBN : 1617614661

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Social Insects by Emily M. Stewart Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Kenneth G. Ross,Robert W. Matthews
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501718670

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The Social Biology of Wasps by Kenneth G. Ross,Robert W. Matthews Pdf

In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of the book opens with a review of the classification of the family Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids. The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M. Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar. Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura. Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G. Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

Author : Henry Hermani
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Christopher K. Starr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030281019

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Encyclopedia of Social Insects by Christopher K. Starr Pdf

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects.

Author : Claire Detrain,Jean L. Deneubourg,Jacques M. Pasteels
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034887397

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Information Processing in Social Insects by Claire Detrain,Jean L. Deneubourg,Jacques M. Pasteels Pdf

Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Jacques Pasteels Studies on insects have been pioneering in major fields of modern biology. In the 1970 s, research on pheromonal communication in insects gave birth to the dis cipline of chemical ecology and provided a scientific frame to extend this approach to other animal groups. In the 1980 s, the theory of kin selection, which was initially formulated by Hamilton to explain the rise of eusociality in insects, exploded into a field of research on its own and found applications in the under standing of community structures including vertebrate ones. In the same manner, recent studies, which decipher the collective behaviour of insect societies, might be now setting the stage for the elucidation of information processing in animals. Classically, problem solving is assumed to rely on the knowledge of a central unit which must take decisions and collect all pertinent information. However, an alternative method is extensively used in nature: problems can be collectively solved through the behaviour of individuals, which interact with each other and with the environment. The management of information, which is a major issue of animal behaviour, is interesting to study in a social life context, as it raises addi tional questions about conflict-cooperation trade-oft's. Insect societies have proven particularly open to experimental analysis: one can easily assemble or disassemble them and place them in controllable situations in the laboratory.

Author : Henry R. Hermann
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032030723

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Defensive Mechanisms in Social Insects by Henry R. Hermann Pdf

Author : Wolf Engels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Johan Billen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89046233177

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Biology and Evolution of Social Insects by Johan Billen Pdf

Author : Paul Schmid-Hempel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691059241

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Parasites in Social Insects by Paul Schmid-Hempel Pdf

In addition, the author develops new insights, especially in his examination of the intricate relationships between parasites and their social hosts through the rigorous use of evolutionary and ecological concepts.".

Author : Viraktamath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004630505

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Social Insects and the Environment by Viraktamath Pdf

This volume includes 370 papers presented by leading scientists at the 11th International Congress of IUSSI at Bangalore, from August 5-11, 1990. The papers which have been classified into 30 sections relate to the symposia papers of the Congress. These cover various frontiers of research on social insects such as evolution of sociality, polygyny, social polymorphism, kin-recognition, kin- selection, foraging strategies, reproductive strategies, biogeography and phylogenetics of bees and ants pollination ecology and management of pestiferous social insects. The most important feature about these papers in this publication is that the results are presented in a crisp, brief and precise manner. Because of the brevity it has been possible to bring together, in one publication, almost all aspects of research on social insects from all parts of the world. The time between presentation of papers at a Congress and publication has been avoided by publishing this volume on the eve of the Congress and this enables scientists to refer to the results immediately.

Author : George F. Oster,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Books on Demand
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Insect societies
ISBN : 0608029475

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