A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• About the Editor
• List of Advisory Panel
• Contributors
• A
• Acorn Ants
• Acropyga
• Aculeate Hymenoptera: Phylogeny and Classification
• African Honey Bees
• Aging in Social Insects
• Allodapine Bees
• Allomones in Social Insects
• Altruism
• Ambrosia Beetle
• Aneuretus simoni
• Ant Gardens
• Ant Mimics
• Ant Mosaics
• Ant Plants: Macaranga
• Ant-Aphid Interactions
• Ant-Hemiptera Associations
• Ant-Hemipteran Mutualism
• Anthorrhiza
• Ant-Like Spiders
• Ant-Plants: Epiphytic Rubiaceae
• Ants: Phylogeny and Classification
• Apicotermitinae
• Apiculture
• Apis andreniformis
• Apis breviligula
• Apis cerana
• Apis dorsata
• Apis florea
• Apis koschevnikovi
• Apis laboriosa
• Apis nigrocincta
• Apis nuluensis
• Argentine Ant
• Army Ants
• Arrhenotoky
• Asexual Reproduction
• Azteca
• B
• Bark Beetle
• Beekeeping
• Bees
• Bees: Ecological Roles
• Beeswax
• Bess Beetle
• Biogeography of Honey Bees
• Brachypterous Queen
• Brain Development and Brain Evolution
• Brood Stimulation Hypothesis
• Brood Stimulation Theory
• Brood, Social Insects
• Brown-Hooded Cockroach
• Bull Ants
• Bulldog Ants
• Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata)
• Bumble Bees (Bombus)
• Burying Beetle
• C
• Cape Honey Bee
• Cardiocondyla: Heart Node Ants
• Carpenter Ants: (Camponotus)
• Caste Differentiation: Ants
• Caste Differentiation: Genetic and Epigenetic Factors
• Caste Differentiation: Honey Bees
• Caste Differentiation: Melipona
• Caste: Social Insects
• Caste: Social Wasps
• Caste: Termites
• Caste: Worker Polyethism in Social Hymenoptera
• Cataglyphis
• Central Nervous System
• Cerceris
• Colonial Spiders
• Colony Collapse Disorder
• Colony Cycle
• Colony Defense by Social Insects
• Colony Foundation
• Commensalism
• Common Stomach
• Communal
• Communal Stomach
• Communication: Alarm
• Communication: Honey Bee Dances
• Communication: Pheromones
• Communication: Recruitment to Resources
• Communication: Vibrational and Acoustic
• Conflicts of Interest Within Colonies
• Conservation of Social Insects
• Cooperative Spiders
• Cooperative Transport in Ants
• Corbiculate Bees
• Crabronidae
• Crematogaster
• Cubitermitinae
• Cuckoo Bumble Bees (Bombus (Psithyrus))
• Cuticular Hydrocarbons
• D
• Dacetine Ants
• Darkling Beetle
• Dawn Ants
• Diacamma
• Dichthadiiform Queen
• Dichthadiigyne
• Dinosaur Ant
• Direct Fitness
• Driver Ants
• Drywood Termites (Kalotermitidae)
• Dung Beetle
• Dwarf Honey Bees (Apis (Micrapis))
• Dzierzon’s Rule
• E
• Eastern Cavity-Nesting Honey Bees (Apis cerana and Close Relatives)
• Eastern Hive Bees
• Ecosystem Engineers: Ants and Termites
• Ecosystem Services of Social Insects
• Ectatomma
• Ectatomminae
• Elaiosome
• Emery’s Rule
• Ergatoid Queen
• Euglossine Bees
• Euglossini
• Eusociality
• Exocrine Glands
• Extrafloral Nectaries
• F
• Feeding
• Fire Ants (Solenopsis, in Part)
• Food
• Fossil Social Insects
• Fungus Beetle
• Fungus-Farming Ants (Attini in Part)
• Fungus-Growing Termites (Macrotermitinae)
• G
• Gamergate
• Genetics of Social Behavior
• Genomics of Social Insects
• Giant Amazonian Ants (Dinoponera)
• Giant Honey Bees (Apis (Megapis))
• Giant Northern Termite
• Giant Tropical Ant
• Green Ant
• Green Tree Ant
• Gregarious Cockroaches
• Group Carrying
• Group Retrieval
• Group Selection
• Group Transport
• Guests of Social Insects
• Gut Biome
• Gut Fauna
• Gut Symbionts
• H
• Halictus
• Haplodiploidy
• Harvester Ants
• Hive Bee
• Honey and Social Insects
• Honey Bee Diseases and Parasites
• Honeycomb
• Honeydew
• House-Hunting Ants
• Hover Wasps (Stenogastrinae)
• Hydnophytum
• Hymenopteran Venom Apparatus
• I
• Inclusive Fitness
• Indirect Fitness
• Inquilines
• International Union for the Study of Social Insects
• Intestinal Biome
• Intestinal Fauna
• Intestinal Symbionts
• Introduced and Invasive Species
• J
• Jack-Jumpers
• Juvenile Hormone
• K
• Kin Discrimination
• Kin Recognition
• Kinship
• Kinship Theory
• L
• Large Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa)
• Lasioglossum
• Lasius
• Legionary Ants
• Leptanillinae
• Leptogenys
• Leptothorax
• Lifespan
• Linepithema
• Longevity
• M
• Marauder Ants (Carebara in Part)
• Mastotermes darwiniensis
• Mastotermitidae
• Matabele Ant (Megaponera analis)
• Megalopta
• Megapis
• Meliponiculture
• Micrapis
• Microstigmus
• Mimicry
• Mischocyttarus
• Monomorium
• Mound Nest
• Multi-nest Colonies
• Multiple Nests
• Myrmeciine Ants
• Myrmecodia
• Myrmecomorphy
• Myrmecophiles
• Myrmecophyte
• Myrmephytum
• N
• Nasute Termites (Nasutitermitinae)
• Nectar
• Nest Homeostasis
• Nest Mound
• Nest Parasites
• Nest Relocation
• Nest Structure: Honey Bees
• Nest Structure: Social Wasps
• Nest Structure: Stingless Bees
• Nest Structure: Termites
• Nest Transfer
• Nesting Associations Among Social Insects
• Nestmate Recognition
• Nomadism
• Nonflying Reproductives in Ants
• Nutrition in Social Insects
• O
• Odor Trail
• Optimal Foraging Theory
• Orchid Bees (Euglossini)
• Orientation by Central-Place Foragers
• P
• Paper Wasps (Polistes)
• Parapolybia
• Parasites and Pathogens
• Parthenogenesis
• Pathogens
• Pheidole
• Pheidologeton
• Pheromone Trail
• Platythyrea
• Poison Apparatus
• Pollination and Agriculture
• Polycaly
• Polydomy (Polycaly)
• Poneroid Ants
• Presocial
• Presocial Insects
• Propolis
• Pseudomyrmecinae
• R
• Red Tree Ant
• Relatedness
• Rhytidoponera
• Rock Ants
• Ropalidia
• Round Dance
• Rove Beetle
• S
• Seed Dispersal by Ants
• Seed-Harvesting Ants
• Self-Organization and Stigmergy
• Semiochemicals
• Senescence
• Sex Determination
• Sexual Selection in Social Insects
• Slave-Making in Ants (Dulosis)
• Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina)
• Social Aphids
• Social Apoid Wasps
• Social Beetles
• Social Crop
• Social Gut
• Social Parasitism
• Social Spiders
• Social Stomach
• Sperm Competition
• Spiny Ants (Polyrhachis)
• Squamellaria
• Stag Beetle
• Steady State
• Sting Apparatus
• Sting Autotomy
• Stinger
• Stingless Beekeeping
• Stingless Bees (Meliponini)
• Stylotermitidae
• Subsocial
• Subsocial Spiders
• Subterranean Ants
• Subterranean Termites (Rhinotermitidae)
• Supercolonies of Ants
• Superorganism Concept
• Swarm-Founding Wasps
• Sweat Bees (Halictidae)
• Symbionts
• Symbiosis
• T
• Tandem Running
• Temnothorax
• Termite Feeding Syndromes
• Termites
• Termites as Structural Pests
• Termites: Phylogeny and Classification
• Termitophiles
• Thatch Ants
• Thelytoky
• Thermoregulation
• Tramp Ants
• Trophallaxis
• Trophobiont
• Trophobiosis
• Turtle Ants (Cephalotes)
• U
• Urban Social Insects
• V
• Venom
• Vespinae
• W
• Waggle Dance
• Weaver Ants (Oecophylla)
• Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
• Wood Ants (Formica rufa Species Group)
• Wood Roaches
• Wood-Feeding Cockroaches of the Genus Cryptocercus
• Worker Dimorphism
• Worker Policing
• Worker Polymorphism: Ants