Ants, Bees, and Other Social Insects
Author: Kris Hirschmann
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439566315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the world of social insects, with an emphasis on ants and bees.
Author: Kris Hirschmann
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439566315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the world of social insects, with an emphasis on ants and bees.
Author: World Book
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780716629368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does an ant nest look like? Why do honey bees dance? How can you tell the difference between a termite and an ant? Read this book to find out!
Author: Cecilia Venn
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780716612056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Questions and answers explore the world of social insects, with an emphasis on ants.
Author: Richard Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1472964896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Brilliant, Fantastic and Significant' - Dr George McGavin Ants are seemingly everywhere, and this familiarity has led to some contemptuous and less than helpful stereotypes. In this compelling insight into the natural and cultural history of ants, Richard Jones helps to unravel some of the myths and misunderstanding surrounding their remarkable behaviours. Ant aggregations in large (often mind-bogglingly huge) nests are a complex mix of genetics, chemistry, geography and higher social interaction. Their forage trails – usually to aphid colonies but occasionally into the larder – are maintained by a wondrous alchemy of molecular scents and markers. Their social colony structure confused natural philosophers of old and still taxes the modern biologist today. Beginning the book with a straightforward look at ant morphology, Jones then explores the ant species found in the British Isles and parts of nearby mainland Europe, their foraging, nesting, navigating and battle instincts, how ants interact with the landscape, their evolution, and their place in our understanding of how life on earth works. Alongside this, he explores the complex relationship between humans and ants, and how ants went from being the subject of fables and moral storytelling to become popular research tools. Drawing on up-to-date science and featuring striking colour photographs throughout, this book presents a convincing case for why ants are worth our greater recognition and respect.
Author: James T. Costa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-09-30
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9780674021631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Robert K Vander Meer
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1000302369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Owain Westmacott Richards
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Duncan Michener
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781258788902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael D. Breed
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1000314898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.