Encyclopedia of Social Insects

Editor: Starr, Christopher K.
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-3-03-028101-4
Category: Science - Biology
Image Count: 502
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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