The other insect societies [electronic resource] / James T. Costa.
Asked to name an insect society, most of us--whether casual or professional students of nature--quickly point to one of the so-called eusocial marvels: the ant colony, the beehive, the termite mound, the wasp nest. Each is awe-inspiring in its division of labor--collective defense, foraging, and nes...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Bert Hölldobler
- Commentary / Edward O. Wilson
- Introduction : What's in a name?
- The ecology of social evolution : lessons from the other insect societies
- Orthopteroidea. Dermaptera : earwig mothers
- Orthoptera : hopper herds and cricket families
- Embiidina : the web spinners
- Mantodea and Phasmatodea : mantids and walkingsticks
- Blattodea : cockroaches that care
- Psocoptera and Zoraptera : barklice and angel insects
- Hemipteroidea. Hemiptera : Sternorrhyncha : Aphidoidea : samurai aphids
- Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha : treehopper herds
- Hemiptera : Heteroptera I : Terrestrial bugs
- Hemiptera : Heteroptera II : Aquatic bugs
- Thysanoptera : communes and family fortresses.
- Neuropteroidea. Coleoptera : beetle societies I : Dung, rove, and carrion beetles and their allies
- Coleoptera : beetle societies II : Bark and ambrosia beetles and other weevils
- Coleoptera : beetle societies III : Leaf, fungus, carrion, darkling, and whirligig beetles and their allies
- Panorpoidea. Lepidoptera : social caterpillars I : Moths
- Lepidoptera : social caterpillars II : More moths, and social butterflies
- Hymenopteroidea. Hymenoptera : Symphyta : sawfliy societies
- Noninsect arthropods. Other social arthropods : arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans
- Coda : sociality in an Appalachian spring.