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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tschinkel, Walter R. (Walter Reinhart), 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Fire ants.
Ants.
Table of Contents:
  • A quick tour of fire ant biology
  • The species of fire ants and their biogeography
  • An atlas of fire ant anatomy
  • Getting here
  • La Conquista: spreading out
  • Predicting future range limits
  • Shelter
  • Space
  • Food
  • Mating and colony founding
  • The claustral period
  • The incipient phase and brood raiding
  • Dependent colony founding
  • Colony growth
  • Relative growth and sociogenesis
  • Colony reproduction and the seasonal cycle
  • Nestmate and brood recognition
  • Division of labor
  • Adaptive demography
  • The organization of foraging
  • Food sharing within the colony
  • Venom and its uses
  • Social control of the Queen's egg-laying rate
  • Necrophoric behavior
  • Discovery of polygyny
  • The suppression of independent colony founding in polygyne colonies
  • The nature and fate of polygyne alates
  • Polygyne mating, adoption, execution
  • Biological consequences of polygyny
  • Hybridization between Solenopsis invicta and S. Richteri
  • Populations of monogyne Fire Ants
  • Territorial behavior and monogyne popluation regulation
  • Ecological niche
  • Solenopsis invicta and ant community ecology
  • Solenopsis invicta and other communities
  • Fire ants and vertebrates
  • Biological control
  • Some final words.