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The Other Insect Societies


By COSTA, JAMES T. (Author)
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Price : $98.00  $78.40
ISBN : 9780674021631  
Page : 812
Year of Publication : 2006    Edition : 0
Publisher : HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject : BIOLOGY



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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.


James T. Costa is Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station and is Professor of Biology at Western Carolina University.



Content :

Foreword by Bert Hölldobler

Commentary by Edward O. Wilson

Chapter 1. Introduction: What’s in a Name?

Chapter 2. The Ecology of Social Evolution: Lessons from the Other Insect Societies

Orthopteroidea

Chapter 3. Dermaptera: Earwig Mothers

Chapter 4. Orthoptera: Hopper Herds and Cricket Families

Chapter 5. Embiidina: The Webspinners

Chapter 6. Mantodea and Phasmatodea: Mantids and Walkingsticks

Chapter 7. Blattodea: Cockroaches That Care

Chapter 8. Psocoptera and Zoraptera: Barklice and Angel Insects

Hemipteroidea

Chapter 9. Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea: Samurai Aphids

Chapter 10. Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Treehopper Herds

Chapter 11. Hemiptera: Heteroptera I: Terrestrial Bugs

Chapter 12. Hemiptera: Heteroptera II: Aquatic Bugs

Chapter 13. Thysanoptera: Communes and Family Fortresses

Neuropteroidea

Chapter 14. Coleoptera: Beetle Societies I: Dung, Rove, and Carrion Beetles and Their Allies

Chapter 15. Coleoptera: Beetle Societies II: Bark and Ambrosia Beetles and Other Weevils

Chapter 16. Coleoptera: Beetle Societies III: Leaf, Fungus, Carrion, Darkling, and Whirligig Beetles Panorpoidea

Chapter 17. Lepidoptera: Social Caterpillars I: Moths

Chapter 18. Lepidoptera: Social Caterpillars II: More Moths, and Social Butterflies

Hymenopteroidea

Chapter 19. Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Sawfly Societies

Noninsect Arthropods

Chapter 20. Other Social Arthropods: Arachnids, Centipedes, Millipedes, and Crustaceans

Coda: Sociality in an Appalachian Spring

Illustration Sources

Acknowledgments

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index

Author Index

Color plates

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