Interindividual Behavioral Variability in Social Insects

by Robert L. Jeanne (Editor)

Overview

This book represents empirical studies of some aspect of the phenomenon of variability in social insect behavior. It illustrates the range of ways colony members can differ from one another and interprets the variability in terms of the external environment, social context, or individual experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429712159
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/09/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	466
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

ROBERT L. JEANNE received the Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1971, and is now professor of entomology and zoology at the University of Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

1 Individual Traits of Social Behavior in Ants 2 The Group Context in Role Switching in Harvester Ants 3 Interindividual Differences Based on Behavior Transition Probabilities in the Ant Camponotus sericeiventris 4 Variation in Foraging Behavior Among Workers of the Ant Formica schaufussi: Ecological Correlates of Search Behavior and the modification of Search Pattern 5 Individual Differences in Social Insect Behavior: flovement and Space Use in Leptothorax allardycei, 6 The Gyne Who Would Be Queen: Dominance in the Ant IridomyrImex purpureus 7 Pleometrosis and Polygyny in Ants 8 Behavioral and Biochemical Variation in the Fire Ant, Solenopsis Invicta 9 Variation in Foraging Patterns of the Western Harvester Ant, PogonomyrI:lex occidental is, in Relation to Variation in Habitat Structure 10 Variation in Behavior Among Workers of the Primitively Social Hasp Polistes fuscatus variatus 11 Age Polyethism and Individual Variation in Polybia occidental is, an Advanced Eusocial Hasp 12 Undertaker Specialists in Honey Bee Colonies 13 Body Size, Individual Behavior, and Social Behavior in Honey Bees 14 Elitism in Social Insects: A Positive Feedback Model.