Social insects /
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New York :
Academic Press,
1979-1982.
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Table of Contents:
- V.1. Insect sociality
- an introduction / H. R. Hermann
- Origin and evolution of insect sociality : a review of modern theory / C. K. Starr
- Antiquity of sociality in insects / F. M. Carpenter and H. R. Hermann
- Territoriality in social insects / Cesare Baroni Urbani
- Caste differentiation and division of labor / M. V. Brian
- Genetics of sociality / R. H. Crozier
- Larvae of the social Hymenoptera / G. C. Wheeler and J. Wheeler
- Social and evolutionary significance of social insect symbionts / David H. Kistner
- V.2. The enemies and defense mechanisms of termites / Jean Deligne, Andre Quennedey, and Murray S. Blum
- Defensive mechanisms in the social Hymenoptera / Henry R. Hermann and Murray S. Blum
- Presocial insects / George C. Eickwort
- Sociality in the Arachnida / Ruth E. Buskirk
- Systematics of social Hymenoptera / Roy R. Snelling
- V.3. The social insects' bestiary / David H. Kistner
- Behavior and ecology of bumble bees / Douglass H. Morse
- Honey bees / Alfred Dietz
- Stingless bees / Shôichi F. Sakagami
- V.4. Social wasps / Roger D. Akre
- Ants : foraging, nesting, broad behavior, and polyethism / John H. Sudd
- Army ants / William H. Gotwald, Jr.
- Fungus ants / Neal A. Weber.