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| Author | : Owain Westmacott Richards |
| Publisher | : British Museum Press |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Nature |
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| Author | : Owain Westmacott Richards |
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| Release | : 1978 |
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| Author | : Chris Alice Kratzer |
| Publisher | : Owlfly Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2022-01-08 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1737892715 |
With over 400 pages and 900 full-color illustrations, The Social Wasps of North America is the world's first complete illustrated field guide to all known species of social wasps from the high arctic of Greenland and Alaska to the tropical forests of Panama and Grenada. For beginners, experts, and everyone in-between, The Social Wasps of North America provides new insights about some of the world’s least popular beneficial insects, plus tips and tricks to avoid painful stings. This book includes detailed information about the ecology, evolution, taxonomy, anatomy, nest architecture, and conservation of social wasp species. To purchase this book in softcover format, visit our website at OwlflyLLC.com/publications.
| Author | : Fabio Prezoto |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2020-11-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 303053510X |
This book provides updated information on this intriguing and exciting group of insects: Neotropical Social Wasps. These insects have a particular biology and their colonies are formed by a few cooperative females living in either small or massive, structured nests where stinging individuals organize their activities and defend their offspring. Topics include evolutionary aspects, biogeography, post-embryonic development, community behavior and ecology, economic importance, and research methods.
| Author | : Kenneth G. Ross |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 699 |
| Release | : 2018-08-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1501718673 |
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 | : James H. Hunt |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2007-03-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0190294647 |
Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae. He presents empirical knowledge of social wasps from two approaches, one that focuses on phylogeny and life history and one that focuses on individual ontogeny, colony development, and population dynamics. He also provides an extensive summary of the existing literature while demonstrating how it can be clouded by theory. Hunt's fresh approach to the conflicting literature on sociality highlights how oft repeated models can become fixed in the thinking of the scientific community. Instead, Hunt presents a mechanistic scenario for the evolution of sociality in wasps that changes our perspective on kin selection, the paradigm that has dominated thinking about social evolution since the 1970s. This innovative new model integrates life history, nutrition, fitness and ecology in which social insect biologists will find a rich storehouse of ideas and information, and behavioral ecologists will find a bracing challenge to long accepted models. Engagingly written, bold, and provocative, The Evolution of Social Wasps marks a milestone in our understanding of one of lifes major evolutionary transitions - the origin of social behavior.
| Author | : Bina Pani Das |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Nature |
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| Author | : Richard Mitchell Bohart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 1957 |
| Genre | : Wasps |
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| Author | : Richard M. Bohart |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1957 |
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| Author | : Richard Mitchell Bohart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
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| ISBN | : 9780598204424 |
