The Other Insect Societies

James T. Costa

800 pages, parution le 06/10/2006

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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.

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Introduction : what's in a name?
The ecology of social evolution : lessons from the other insect societies
Dermaptera : earwig mothers
Orthoptera : Hooper herds and cricket families
Embiidina : the webspinners
Mantodea and phasmatodea : mantids and walkingsticks
Blattodea : cockroaches that care
Psocoptera and Zoraptera : barklice and angel insects
Hemiptera : sternorrhyncha : aphidoidea : samurai aphids
Hemiptera : auchenorrhyncha : treehopper herds
Hemiptera : heteroptera I : terrestrial bugs
Hemiptera : heteroptera II : aquatic bugs
Thysanoptera : communes and family fortresses
Coleoptera : beetle societies I : dung, rove, and carrion beetles and their allies
Coleoptera : beetle societies II : bark and ambrosia beetles and other weevils
Coleoptera : beetle societies III : leaf, fungus, carrion, darkling, and whirligig beetles and their allies
Lepidoptera : social caterpillars I : moths
Lepidoptera : social caterpillars II : more moths, and social butterflies
Hymenoptera : symphyta : sawfly societies
Other social arthropods : arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans
Coda : sociality in an Appalachian spring

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Éditeur(s)	The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Auteur(s)	James T. Costa
Parution	06/10/2006
Nb. de pages	800
Format	17 x 26
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1490g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780674021631
ISBN13	978-0-6740-2163-1