The Social Biology of WaspsKenneth G. Ross, Robert W. Matthews In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of the book opens with a review of the classification of the family Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids. The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M. Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar. Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura. Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G. Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Polygynous Family Model for Wasp Social Evolution | 21 |
Concluding Remarks | 29 |
The Solitary and Presocial Vespidae | 33 |
Population Structure and Sex Ratio 66 Concluding Remarks | 69 |
Habitat Adult and Larval Morphology 75 The Abdominal | 77 |
Male Behavior and Mating 88 Nest Architecture | 90 |
4 | 99 |
The Dominance Hierarchy | 318 |
Establishment of a Dominance Hierarchy 325 Maintenance of Dominance | 330 |
10 | 336 |
Queen Number in Vespinae | 360 |
Evolution of Queen Number | 371 |
Evolution of Queen Control | 382 |
11 | 389 |
Polyethism and Reproductive Strategies | 407 |
Founding Phase | 106 |
Worker Phase | 127 |
Reproductive Phase | 137 |
Concluding Remarks 143 Appendix 4 1 Renesting Model 145 Appendix 4 2 | 147 |
Distribution and Systematics 151 Nest Architecture 153 Nesting Cycle | 158 |
Enemies and Colony Defense 165 Food and Feeding Habits 170 Mating | 172 |
A Perspective from Studying Independent | 179 |
founding Polistines 181 A Possible Route to Eusociality 185 Concluding | 188 |
What Are the Swarmfounding Wasps? 191 The Success of the Swarmfounding | 199 |
Causes of Success | 210 |
Ecological Influences on Colony Size and Cycle | 224 |
Concluding Remarks | 231 |
Vespa and Provespa | 232 |
Feeding Habits | 242 |
Population Dynamics | 250 |
Concluding Remarks | 261 |
General Life History Patterns 265 Colony Initiation and Queen | 284 |
Queen Control and Reproductive Competition | 290 |
Concluding Remarks | 304 |
Occurrence and Distribution | 311 |
Concluding Remarks | 423 |
Nourishment and the Evolution of the Social Vespidae | 426 |
Foundations of the Nutritional Perspective 428 Nutritional Castration and | 433 |
Social Wasps as Annuals 444 Generalization of the Model 447 Concluding | 448 |
Primitively Eusocial Vespidae | 456 |
Highly Eusocial Vespidae | 469 |
Social Sphecidae 475 Concluding Remarks | 476 |
Stenogastrinae | 483 |
Concluding Remarks 507 Appendix 14 1 Definitions 518 Appendix 14 2 | 519 |
The Nest as the Locus of Social Life | 520 |
Functions of the Nest 521 The Elements of Nest Structure 525 The Boundary | 532 |
Conflicts of Genetic Interest 535 Concluding Remarks | 538 |
Pheromones and Gland Evolution | 553 |
Concluding Remarks | 568 |
An Overview of Sphecid Social Behavior 573 Factors Favoring Social | 577 |
Case Study of a Eusocial Sphecid | 592 |
Concluding Remarks | 601 |
Literature Cited | 603 |
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