The biology of social insects : proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Boulder, Colorado, August 1982 /: proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Boulder, Colorado, August 1982. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael D. Breed, Charles D. Michener, and Howard E. Evans.
• Other Names: Breed, Michael D; Michener, Charles D (Charles Duncan), 1918-2015; Evans, Howard Ensign; International Union for the Study of Social Insects., Congress, (9th) 1982 (Boulder, Colo.)
• Contents: Plenary addresses. Of insects and man / Edward O. Wilson. On insects and insects : twists and turns in our understanding of the evolution of eusociality / Ross H. Crozier -- Symposium I : Foraging behavior and pollination. Introduction / Gordon D. Waller. Competition among social species / William M. Schaffer, David W. Zeh and M. Valentine Schaffer. Nectar biology and pollinator attraction in the north temperate climate / Edward E. Southwick. Information used in foraging / Keith D. Waddington. Random and systematic search in foraging insects / Rudolf Jander -- Symposium II : Competition and population dynamics in social insects. Introduction : The wood and the trees / John H. Sudd. A comparison of the ground dwelling ant populations between a Guinea savanna and an evergreen rain forest of the Ivory Coast / J. Levieux. Population dynamics in an African fungus-growing termite / Johanna P.E.C. Darlington. Interactions among the four species of the genus Apis / N. Koeniger -- Symposium III : The roles of social insects in ecosystems. Introduction / W.L. Nutting. Ecological role of termites in a tropical rain forest / Takuya Abe. A population dynamics hypothesis for Vespula in England, U.K. / Michael E. Archer. The interaction and impact of domestic stock and termites in a Kenyan rangeland / N.M. Collins. Comparative early growth and foraging of two naturally established vespine wasp colonies / Albert Greene. Ant manipulation in agro- and forest-ecosystems / Jonathan D. Majer. Behavioral ecology of the army ant Neivamyrmex nigrescens in a desert-grassland habitat / Howard Topoff -- Symposium IV : Economically important social insects. Introduction / S. Bradleigh Vinson. Economics and control of yellowjackets (Vespula, Dolichovespula) / Roger D. Akre. The economic importance of leaf-cutting ants / J.M. Cherrett. Control of Monomorium pharaonis (L) with methoprene baits : implications for the control of other pest species / John P. Edwards. Economic aspects of the imported fire ant in the United States / C.S. Lofgren and C.T. Adams. The impact on man of Polistes wasps with special reference to caterpillar suppression / James E. Gillaspy. The economic impact of the Africanized honey bee in South America / Lionel Segui Gonçalves. The economic importance of termites in North America / Joe K. Mauldin. Economically important termites of the Oriental regions and their management / P.K. Sen-Sarma -- Symposium V : Presocial behavior. Introduction / George C. Eickwort. Soldiers and altruistic dispersal in aphids / Shigeyuki Aoki. Communal nesting in Australian Cerceris digger wasps / Howard E. Evans and Allan W. Hook. Evolved relations between reproductive and subsocial behaviors in Coleoptera / Gonzalo Halffter. Further experiments on the artificial induction of multifemale associations in the principally solitary bee genus Ceratina / Shoichi F. Sakagami and Yasuo Maeta. Selective factors associated with the evolution of membracid sociality / Thomas K. Wood -- Symposium VI : The evolution and ontogeny of eusociality. Introduction / Mary Jane West-Eberhard. A comparative study of social structure in colonies of Ropalidia / Raghavendra Gadagkar and N.V. Joshi. Liostenogaster flavolineata : social life in the small colonies of an Asian tropical wasp / M.H. Hansell, Charlotte Samuel and J.I. Furtado. The social structure of Bombus terrestris colonies : a review / Cor G.J. van Honk. Trophallaxis and the evolution of eusocial Hymenoptera / James H. Hunt. Multiple primary queens in termites : phyletic distribution, ecological context, and a comparison to polygyny in Hymenoptera / Barbara L. Thorne. Intra-colonial competition in ants, with special reference to the genus Myrmica / G.W. Elmes -- Symposium VII : Caste and ergonomics. Introduction / Joan M. Herbers. The role of young workers in Myrmica colony development / M.V. Brian and E.J.M. Evesham. Juvenile hormone and aggression in the honey bee / Michael D. Breed. Queen number and colony ergonomics in Leptothorax longispinosus / Joan M. Herbers. Egg dimorphism and male production in Formica polyctena Foerster / Gerhard H. Schmidt -- Symposium VIII : Predation, social parasitism, and defense. Introduction / Robert W. Matthews. How the slave-making ant Harpagoxenus americanus (Emery) affects the pupa-acceptance behavior of its slaves / Thomas M. Alloway. Evolutionary trends in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma / Alfred Buschinger and Ursula Winter. Comparative behavior of social wasps when attacked by army ants or other predators and parasites / Ruth Chadab-Crepet and Carl W. Rettenmeyer. Social insects in the aftermath of swarm raids of the army ant Eciton burchelli / Nigel R. Franks. Predation, defense, and colony size and cycle in the social wasps / Robert L. Jeanne. Colony defense strategies of honeybees in Thailand / Thomas D. Seeley -- Symposium IX : Communication. Introduction / Rolf Boch. The adaptive value of probabilistic behavior during food recruitment in ants : experimental and theoretical approaches / Jacques M. Pasteels, Jean-Claude Verhaeghe and Jean-Louis Deneubourg. Antennal communication and food exchange in the domestic bee Apis mellifica L. / Hubert Montagner and Gérard Galliot. Behavior genetics of honey bee alarm communication / Anita M. Collins. Chemical communication in ants : new exocrine glands and their behavioral function / Bert Hölldobler. Compositional variability : the key to the social signals produced by honeybee mandibular glands / Robin M. Crewe. Communication and the swarming process in honeybees / H.H.W. Velthuis -- Symposium X : Neurobiology and behavior of social insects. Introduction / Randolf Menzel. Rapid changes in dendritic spine morphology during the honeybee's first orientation flight / Richard G. Coss and John G. Brandon. Electrophysiological analysis of central neurons in the bee and correlations with behavior / Joachim Erber. Neuronal control of heart rate in honey bees / Harald Esch. Circadian and other non-visual inputs to identified visual interneurones in the honey bee / Walter Kaiser. Short-term memory in the honey bee / Randolf Menzel. The effects of amines on behavior and neural activity in the honey bee / Alison R. Mercer. The neural architecture of the honeybee mushroom bodies / Peter G. Mobbs. Modulation of neurosecretion during caste determination in Apis mellifera larvae / Heinz Rembold and Gabriele Ulrich. The bee's celestial map -- a simplified model of the outside world / Rüdiger Wehner. Basic mechanisms of sensory antennal information processing in insects, with special reference to social insects / Claudine Masson. Disruption of ant recruitment by the frontal gland secretion of a termite : a chemical defense strategy / Manfred Kaib. On synaptic connexions, tracts and compartments in the brain of the honeybee / F.W. Schürmann.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (420 pages)
• Subjects: 595.7; Insect societies -- Congresses; Insecta; Behavior, Animal; Insecta -- congresses; Behavior, Animal -- congresses; Insect societies -- Congresses; Insectes, Sociétés d' -- Congrès; Insectes -- Moeurs et comportement -- Congrès; Insect societies; Insectes sociaux -- Congrès; Congress; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000314892; 1000314898
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