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Author : Paul Schmid-Hempel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691059241
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 : Claire Detrain,Jean L. Deneubourg,Jacques M. Pasteels
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034887397
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 : Owain Westmacott Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Entomology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924017982830
Author : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400959156
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 : William Morton Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317230250
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 : Hilda Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Kris Hirschmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ants
ISBN : 0439566312
Explores the world of social insects, with an emphasis on ants and bees.
Author : Christopher K. Starr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030281019
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 : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674454952
A study of insect sociology, presenting individual investigations of wasps, ants, bees, and termites, and discussing caste, behavior, communication, symbioses, and other topics.
Author : Michael D. Breed,Charles D. Michener,Howard E. Evans
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000314892
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 : Robert K Vander Meer,Michael D Breed,Mark Winston,Karl E Espelie
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000302363
Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects.
Author : Stefan Jarau,Michael Hrncir
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420075618
Omnipresent in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems and of undisputed ecological and economical importance, the study of social insects is an area that continues to attract a vast number of researchers. As a consequence, a huge amount of information about their biology and ecology has accumulated. Distilling this scattered information into a highly focused reference, Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches unites traditional behavioral and ecological studies with theoretical and mathematical models. The book covers foraging ecology and behavior of social insects, their communication mechanisms, and theoretical models of important aspects. It examines two different but inseparably interlaced levels of social insect foraging: the macroscopic or colony level and the microscopic or individual level. The chapters include discussions of foraging decisions, patterns and strategies of social insect colonies, and information use and information transfer between workers. The book provides examples of how this biological knowledge can be used as a basis for the construction of mathematical and neural network models that in return may increase understanding of social insect foraging. The contributors provide a fresh look on their topics, covering a wide range of subjects and recent scientific developments that are unprecedented in breadth and depth. The coverage of ants, bees, and wasps in one resource is a unique feature of the book. This taxonomic content combined with the variety of research approaches, allows the book to provide deeper insight into the subject.
Author : George F. Oster,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691023611
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 : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Insect societies
ISBN : 1617614661
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : James T. Costa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0674021630
In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders.