The Other Insect Societies / James T. Costa.
Costa, James T., author.; Hölldobler, Bert, contributor.; Wilson, Edward O., contributor.
2006
QL496 .C67 2006
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Title The Other Insect Societies / James T. Costa.
Author Costa, James T., author.
ISBN 9780674271616
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271616
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (812 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674271616 doi
Call Number QL496 .C67 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 595.717/82
Summary 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 nestbuilding. Yet E. O. Wilson cautioned back in 1971 that sociality should be defined more broadly, "in order to prevent the arbitrary exclusion of many interesting phenomena." Thirty-five years later, James T. Costa gives those interesting phenomena their due. He argues that, in trying to solve the puzzle of how highly eusocial behaviors evolved in a few insect orders, evolutionary biologists have neglected the more diverse social arrangements in the remaining twenty-eight orders--insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema. Costa synthesizes here for the first time the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders. This wide-ranging tour takes a rich narrative approach that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behavior and ecology of these remarkable groups. This comprehensive treatment is likely to inspire a new generation of naturalists to take a closer look.
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Added Author Hölldobler, Bert, contributor.
Wilson, Edward O., contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Commentary
1 Introduction: What's in a Name?
2 The Ecology of Social Evolution: Lessons from the Other Insect Societies
Orthopteroidea
3 Dermaptera: Earwig Mother
4 Orthoptera: Hopper Herds and Cricket Families
5 Embiidina: The Webspinner
6 Mantodea and Phasmatodea: Mantids and Walkingsticks
7 Blattodea: Cockroaches That Care
8 Psocoptera and Zoraptera: Barklice and Angel Insects
Hemipteroidea
9 Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha. Aphidoidea: Samurai Aphids
10 Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha. Treehopper Herds
11 Hemiptera: Heteroptera I. Terrestrial Bugs
12 Hemiptera: Heteroptera II. Aquatic Bugs
13 Thysanoptera: Communes and Family Fortresses
Neuropteroidea
14 Coleoptera: Beetle Societies I. Dung, Rove, and Carrion Beetles and Their Allies
15 Coleoptera: Beetle Societies II. Bark and Ambrosia Beetles and Other Weevils
16 Coleoptera: Beetle Societies III. Leaf, Fungus, Carrion, Darkling, and Whirligig Beetles and Their Allies
Panorpoidea
17 Lepidoptera: Social Caterpillars I: Moths
18 Lepidoptera: Social Caterpillars II: More Moths, and Social Butterflies
Hymenopteroidea
19 Hymenoptera: Symphyta. Sawfly Societies
Noninsect Arthropods
20 Other Social Arthropods: Arachnids, Centipedes, Millipedes, and Crustaceans
Coda: Sociality in an Appalachian Spring
Illustration Sources
Acknowledgments
Taxonomic Index
Subject Index
Author Index

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