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The other insect societies /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Costa, James T., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.