The Biology Of Social Insects

Preface -- Plenary Addresses -- Of Insects and Man -- On Insects and Insects: Twists and Turns in Our Understanding of the Evolution of Eusociality -- Foraging Behavior and Pollination -- Introduction -- Competition Among Social Species -- Nectar Biology and Pollinator Attraction in the North Temperate Climate -- Information Used in Foraging -- Random and Systematic Search in Foraging Insects -- Abstracts -- Competition and Population Dynamics in Social Insects -- Introduction: The Wood and the Trees -- A Comparison of the Ground Dwelling Ant Populations Between a Guinea Savanna and an Evergreen Rain Forest of the Ivory Coast -- Population Dynamics in an African Fungus-Growing Termite -- Interactions Among the Four Species of the Genus Apis -- Abstracts -- The Roles of Social Insects in Ecosystems -- Introduction -- Ecological Role of Termites in a Tropical Rain Forest -- A Population Dynamics Hypothesis for Vespula in England, U.K -- The Interaction and Impact of Domestic Stock and Termites in a Kenyan Rangeland -- Comparative Early Growth and Foraging of Two Naturally Established Vespine Wasp Colonies -- Ant Manipulation in Agro-and Forest-Ecosystems -- Behavioral Ecology of the Army Ant Neivamyrmex nigrescens in a Desert-Grassland Habitat -- Abstracts -- Economically Important Social Insects -- Introduction -- Economics and Control of Yellowjackets (Vespula, Dolichovespula) -- The Economic Importance of Leaf-Cutting Ants -- Control of Monomorium pharaonis (L) with Methoprene Baits: Implications for the Control of Other Pest Species -- Economic Aspects of the Imported Fire Ant in the United States -- The Impact on Man of Polistes Wasps with Special Reference to Caterpillar Suppression -- The Economic Impact of the Africanized Honey Bee in South America -- The Economic Importance of Termites in North America -- Economically Important Termites of the Oriental Regions and Their Management -- Abstracts -- Presocial Behavior -- Introduction -- Soldiers and Altruistic Dispersal in Aphids -- Communal Nesting in Australian Cerceris Digger Wasps -- Evolved Relations Between Reproductive and Subsocial Behaviors in Coleoptera -- Further Experiments on the Artificial Induction of Multifemale Associations in the Principally Solitary Bee Genus Ceratina -- Selective Factors Associated with the Evolution of Membracid Sociality -- Abstracts -- The Evolution and Ontogeny of Eusociality -- Introduction -- A Comparative Study of Social Structure in Colonies of Ropalidia -- Liostenogaster flavolineata: Social Life in the Small Colonies of an Asian Tropical Wasp -- The Social Structure of Bombus terrestris Colonies: A Review -- Trophallaxis and the Evolution of Eusocial Hymenoptera -- Multiple Primary Queens in Termites: Phyletic Distribution, Ecological Context, and a Comparison to Polygyny in Hymenoptera -- Intra-Colonial Competition in Ants, with Special Reference to the Genus Myrmica -- Abstracts -- Caste and Ergonomics -- Introduction -- The Role of Young Workers in Myrmica Colony Development -- Juvenile Hormone and Aggression in the Honey Bee -- Queen Number and Colony Ergonomics in Leptothorax longispinosus -- Egg Dimorphism and Male Production in Formica polyctena Foerster -- Abstracts -- Predation, Social Parasitism, and Defense -- Introduction -- How the Slave-Making Ant Harpagoxenus americanus (Emery) Affects the Pupa-Acceptance Behavior of Its Slaves -- Evolutionary Trends in the Parasitic Ant Genus Epimyrma -- Comparative Behavior of Social Wasps When Attacked by Army Ants or Other Predators and Parasites -- Social Insects in the Aftermath of Swarm Raids of the Army Ant Eciton burchelli -- Predation, Defense, and Colony Size and Cycle in the Social Wasps -- Colony Defense Strategies of Honeybees in Thailand -- Abstracts -- Communication -- Introduction -- The Adaptive Value of Probabilistic Behavior During Food Recruitment in Ants: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches -- Antennal Communication and Food Exchange in the Domestic Bee Apis mellifica L -- Behavior Genetics of Honey Bee Alarm Communication -- Chemical Communication in Ants: New Exocrine Glands and Their Behavioral Function -- Compositional Variability: The Key to the Social Signals Produced by Honeybee Mandibular Glands -- Communication and the Swarming Process in Honeybees -- Abstracts -- Neurobiology and Behavior of Social Insects -- Introduction -- Rapid Changes in Dendritic Spine Morphology During the Honeybee's First Orientation Flight -- Electrophysiological Analysis of Central Neurons in the Bee and Correlations with Behavior -- Neuronal (?) Control of Heart Rate in Honey Bees -- Circadian and Other Non-Visual Inputs to Identified Visual Interneurones in the Honey Bee -- Short-Term Memory in the Honey Bee -- The Effects of Amines on Behavior and Neural Activity in the Honey Bee -- The Neural Architecture of the Honeybee Mushroom Bodies -- Modulation of Neurosecretion During Caste Determination in Apis mellifera Larvae -- The Bee's Celestial Map- A Simplified Model of the Outside World -- Basic Mechanisms of Sensory Antennal Information Processing in Insects, with Special Reference to Social Insects -- Disruption of Ant Recruitment by the Frontal Gland Secretion of a Termite: A Chemical Defense Strategy -- On Synaptic Connexions, Tracts and Compartments in the Brain of the Honeybee -- Abstracts -- Abstracts: General Topics*