| The Insect Societies |  | Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: Belknap Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: CDN$ 74.78
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 63953
Media: Paperback
Pages: 562
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0674454952
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.70524
EAN: 9780674454958
ASIN: 0674454952
Publication Date: October 11, 2002
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 Very complete book November 22, 2003
This book was over my head (I don't have any sort of biology background, just more of a backyard naturalist who is hungry to learn) but nonethless I appreciate it for all the incredible information documented here. Its a very big book - 550 pages long and seems more like a serious reference text book for the student studying insects. In that context I think it'd be perfect. There are great drawinging, very detailed and indeed pretty too. There are insect family trees, drawing of nests and eggs, etc. I find the information in here fantastic. I enjoyed the chapter on behavior since that was what I originally was interested in learning about. Wilson talks about mazes with blind alleys and other neat things that ants do. Anyway, great book just be prepared for it to be very very technical.Here are some of the chapters:
- Intro: the importance of societal insects
-degrees of social behavior
-the social wasps
- the ants
-the social bees
- the termites
- the presocial ants
- caste: ants
- caste: social bees and wasps
- caste: termites
- the elements of behavior
- communication: alarm
- communication: recruitment
- comminucation: recognition, food, grooming
- symbiosis
- population dynamics
 Very good November 15, 2000
An outstanding book, very enjoyable. Discusses ants, wasps, bees, termites, etc. A little bit dated now, but it still has one of the best overviews of social insects and their evolution of which I am aware. It is also very readable, with numerous illustrations.
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