The Biology of Social Insects

Proceedings Of The Ninth Congress Of The International Union For The Study Of Social Insects
Herausgeber: Michener, Charles D.; Breed, Michael D.; Evans, Howard E.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book internationally known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367305826
• ISBN-10: 0367305828
• Artikelnr.: 71230396

Autorenporträt

Michael D. Breed is assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Charles D. Michener is Watkins Professor of Entomology and of Systematics and Ecology, the University of Kansas. Howard E. Evans is professor of entomology at Colorado State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Plenary Addresses
Of Insects and Man
On Insects and Insects: Twists and Turns in Our Understanding of the Evolution of Eusociality
Foraging Behavior and Pollination
Introduction
Competition Among Social Species
Nectar Biology and Pollinator Attraction in the North Temperate Climate
Information Used in Foraging
Random and Systematic Search in Foraging Insects
Abstracts
Competition and Population Dynamics in Social Insects
Introduction: The Wood and the Trees
A Comparison of the Ground Dwelling Ant Populations Between a Guinea Savanna and an Evergreen Rain Forest of the Ivory Coast
Population Dynamics in an African Fungus
Growing Termite
Interactions Among the Four Species of the Genus Apis
Abstracts
The Roles of Social Insects in Ecosystems
Introduction
Ecological Role of Termites in a Tropical Rain Forest
A Population Dynamics Hypothesis for Vespula in England, U.K
The Interaction and Impact of Domestic Stock and Termites in a Kenyan Rangeland
Comparative Early Growth and Foraging of Two Naturally Established Vespine Wasp Colonies
Ant Manipulation in Agro
and Forest
Ecosystems
Behavioral Ecology of the Army Ant Neivamyrmex nigrescens in a Desert
Grassland Habitat
Abstracts
Economically Important Social Insects
Introduction
Economics and Control of Yellowjackets (Vespula, Dolichovespula)
The Economic Importance of Leaf
Cutting Ants
Control of Monomorium pharaonis (L) with Methoprene Baits: Implications for the Control of Other Pest Species
Economic Aspects of the Imported Fire Ant in the United States
The Impact on Man of Polistes Wasps with Special Reference to Caterpillar Suppression
The Economic Impact of the Africanized Honey Bee in South America
The Economic Importance of Termites in North America
Economically Important Termites of the Oriental Regions and Their Management
Abstracts
Presocial Behavior
Introduction
Soldiers and Altruistic Dispersal in Aphids
Communal Nesting in Australian Cerceris Digger Wasps
Evolved Relations Between Reproductive and Subsocial Behaviors in Coleoptera
Further Experiments on the Artificial Induction of Multifemale Associations in the Principally Solitary Bee Genus Ceratina
Selective Factors Associated with the Evolution of Membracid Sociality
Abstracts
The Evolution and Ontogeny of Eusociality
Introduction
A Comparative Study of Social Structure in Colonies of Ropalidia
Liostenogaster flavolineata: Social Life in the Small Colonies of an Asian Tropical Wasp
The Social Structure of Bombus terrestris Colonies: A Review
Trophallaxis and the Evolution of Eusocial Hymenoptera
Multiple Primary Queens in Termites: Phyletic Distribution, Ecological Context, and a Comparison to Polygyny in Hymenoptera
Intra
Colonial Competition in Ants, with Special Reference to the Genus Myrmica
Abstracts
Caste and Ergonomics
Introduction
The Role of Young Workers in Myrmica Colony Development
Juvenile Hormone and Aggression in the Honey Bee
Queen Number and Colony Ergonomics in Leptothorax longispinosus
Egg Dimorphism and Male Production in Formica polyctena Foerster
Abstracts
Predation, Social Parasitism, and Defense
Introduction
How the Slave
Making Ant Harpagoxenus americanus (Emery) Affects the Pupa
Acceptance Behavior of Its Slaves
Evolutionary Trends in the Parasitic Ant Genus Epimyrma
Comparative Behavior of Social Wasps When Attacked by Army Ants or Other Predators and Parasites
Social Insects in the Aftermath of Swarm Raids of the Army Ant Eciton burchelli
Predation, Defense, and Colony Size and Cycle in the Social Wasps
Colony Defense Strategies of Honeybees in Thailand
Abstracts
Communication
Introduction
The Adaptive Value of Probabilistic Behavior During Food Recruitment in Ants: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches
Antennal Communication and Food Exchange in the Domestic Bee Apis mellifica L
Behavior Genetics of Honey Bee Alarm Communication
Chemical Communication in Ants: New Exocrine Glands and Their Behavioral Function
Compositional Variability: The Key to the Social Signals Produced by Honeybee Mandibular Glands
Communication and the Swarming Process in Honeybees
Abstracts
Neurobiology and Behavior of Social Insects
Introduction
Rapid Changes in Dendritic Spine Morphology During the Honeybee's First Orientation Flight
Electrophysiological Analysis of Central Neurons in the Bee and Correlations with Behavior
Neuronal (?) Control of Heart Rate in Honey Bees
Circadian and Other Non
Visual Inputs to Identified Visual Interneurones in the Honey Bee
Short
Term Memory in the Honey Bee
The Effects of Amines on Behavior and Neural Activity in the Honey Bee
The Neural Architecture of the Honeybee Mushroom Bodies
Modulation of Neurosecretion During Caste Determination in Apis mellifera Larvae
The Bee's Celestial Map
A Simplified Model of the Outside World
Basic Mechanisms of Sensory Antennal Information Processing in Insects, with Special Reference to Social Insects
Disruption of Ant Recruitment by the Frontal Gland Secretion of a Termite: A Chemical Defense Strategy
On Synaptic Connexions, Tracts and Compartments in the Brain of the Honeybee
Abstracts
Abstracts: General Topics*