The insect societies
A study of insect sociology, presenting individual investigations of wasps, ants, bees, and termites, and discussing caste, behavior, communication, symbioses, and other topics
Print Book, English, 1971
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971
x, 548 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 27 cm
9780674454903, 9780674454958, 0674454901, 0674454952
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Introduction: the importance of social insects
The degrees of social behavior
The social wasps
The ants
The social bees
The termites
The presocial insects
Caste: ants
Caste: social bees and wasps
Caste: termites
The elements of behavior
Communication: alarm and assembly
Communication: recruitment
Communication: recognition, food exchange, and grooming
Group effects and the control of nestmates
Social homeostasis and the superorganism
The genetic theory of social behavior
Compromise and optimization of social evolution
Symbiosis among social insects
Symbiosis with other arthropods
The population dynamics of colonies
The prospect for a unified sociobiology