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