The Other Insect Societies.THE OTHER INSECT SOCIETIES JAMES T. COSTA An ant colony is often viewed as the prototypical insect society, notable for its unique and efficient division of labor. In this lengthy treatise, costa, a professor of biology at Western Carolina University з The university's academic structure is composed of four undergraduate colleges: Applied Sciences Arts and Sciences Business Education and Allied Professions Honors College Graduate School. , explains how the idea of eusocial behavior (what occurs in most ant colonies) has dominated entomology and how it has led to the neglect of noneusocial insect societies. This latter category is further divided into four types of insect societies: maternal and biparental bi·pa·ren·tal adj. 1. Having two parents, male and female. 2. Of or derived from two parents. biparental derived from two parents, male and female. care, paternal care, fortress defense, and herds. Costa also explores the noneusocial arthropod arthropod Any member of the largest phylum, Arthropoda, in the animal kingdom. Arthropoda consists of more than one million known invertebrate species in four subphyla: Uniramia (five classes, including insects), Chelicerata (three classes, including arachnids and horseshoe phylum phylum, in taxonomy: see classification. , which includes spiders, crustaceans, crickets, aphids, beetles, and moths. Belknap, 2006, 767 p., color plates, hardcover, $59.95. |
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