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The Social Biology of Wasps (Paperback)
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The Social Biology of Wasps (Paperback)
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In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities
bring together the results of recent research on the natural
history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as
they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of
the book opens with a review of the classification of the family
Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven
subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social
biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids.
The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive
competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of
queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population
genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as
the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative
discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of
wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior
is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of
wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential
reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral
ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M.
Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar.
Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura.
Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G.
Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano
Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard.
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