Food exploitation by social insects; ecological, behavioral, and theoretical approaches.

9781420075601

Food exploitation by social insects; ecological, behavioral, and theoretical approaches.

Ed. by Stefan Jarau and Michael Hrncir.

CRC / Taylor & Francis

2009

348 pages

$119.95

Hardcover

Contemporary topics in entomology series

QL496

So much is known about social insects that in order to keep the size of the volume manageable, the topic had to be narrowly defined, and aspects covered in other recent publications passed over here. Biologists of course, but also psychologists, information scientists, and medical researchers consider how social insects find food sources and how they efficiently exploit them for the benefit of the entire colony. They look at foraging decisions, patterns and strategies; using and transferring information; and modeling social insect foraging. Among their specific topics are social cues and adaptive foraging strategies in ants, the role of scents in honey bee foraging and recruitment, mechanical signals in stingless bee recruitment, and an evolutionary simulation of the origin of pheromone communication.

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