Anmerkung: Intro -- Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bees in the Forest, Still -- 3 Leaving the Wild -- 4 Are Honey Bees Domesticated? -- 5 The Nest -- 6 Annual Cycle -- 7 Colony Reproduction -- 8 Food Collection -- 9 Temperature Control -- 10 Colony Defense -- 11 Darwinian Beekeeping -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Fascination of Studying Insects -- For the Love of Ants -- Chapter 2. Insects and the Human Food Supply -- The Worm in the Apple -- Nature's Perfume -- Chapter 3. Population and Pests -- Gypsy Moth -- Chapter 4. Insect Societies -- The Origin of Cooperation -- The Superorganism -- Chapter 5. Location is Everything -- The Foraging Abilities of a Colony -- Chapter 6. Insects and the Human Condition -- People and Insect Plagues -- Chapter 7. War and Insects -- Army Ants -- Chapter 8. Insect Terror -- The Creation of a Pop Insect -- Temperate and Tropical Honey Bees -- The Process of Africanization -- Chapter 9. The Birds and the Mosquitoes -- Bugs That Eat Birds -- Chapter 10. Water Babies, Risky Behavior, and Sex -- The Next Generation -- Chapter 11. How Insects "Work -- The Search: Appetitive Behavior, 201 -- Chapter 12. Hot and Cold Insects -- Night-Flying Moths -- Chapter 13. Insect Defenses -- The Love Potion -- Chapter 14. Love at First Smell -- The Sweet Smell of Success -- Chapter 15. Night Creatures -- Evasive Behavior in the Cockroach -- Chapter 16. More Than Just Jewelry -- What is Amber -- Chapter 17. Crime Scene Bugs -- Prologue: Honolulu 1984 -- Chapter 18. Monarchs and Movement -- Millions of Monarchs -- Chapter 19. Insects and The Dismal Science -- The Bumblebee Colony Cycle -- Economy of the Colony -- Chapter 20. Questions of Paternity, Reversal of Sexual Roles, and Sex Addiction -- Hemiptera: Heteroptera II -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Avoiding Asphyxia -- 2. Forest Homes -- 3. Homesite Inspectors -- 4. Choosing a Homesite -- 5. Consensus or Quorum? -- 6. Piping Hot Bees -- 7. Boisterous Buzz-Runners -- 8. Flight Control in Swarms -- 9. Astonishing Behavioral Versatility -- 10. Messenger Bees -- 11. A Tale of Four Species -- 12. Colonies Are Information Centers -- 13. Foragers as Sensors -- 14. Nectar Flow On? -- 15. Mystery of the Tremble Dance -- 16. Two Recruitment Dances, or Just One? -- 17. Movers and Shakers -- 18. Groom Me, Please -- 19. Colony Thirst -- 20. Resin Work -- Closing Thoughts -- Appendix: List of Signals -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Bee Box and Other Tools -- 3. Bee-Hunting Season -- 4. Establishing a Beeline -- 5. Timing Bees to Estimate Distance to Home -- 6. Making Moves Down the Beeline -- 7. Finding the Bee Tree -- 8. On Not "Taking Up" the Bee Tree -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. To Be a Honey Bee -- Chapter 2. Introduction to the Species -- Chapter 3. Evolution -- Chapter 4. Speciation and Biogeography -- Chapter 5. Dance Communication and Foraging -- Chapter 6. Reproduction, Swarming, and Migration -- Chapter 7. Worker Sterility, Kin Selection, and Polyandry -- Chapter 8. Nesting Biology and Nest Defense -- Chapter 9. Parasites, Pathogens, Predators, and a Plant -- Chapter 10. Human Interactions -- Chapter 11. Conservation -- Chapter 12. Concluding Remarks -- Appendix A. A Simple Key to the Workers of the Genus Apis -- Appendix B. A Simple Key to the Parasitic Mesostigmatan Mites of Asian Honey Bees -- Appendix C. The Names of the Honey Bee Species in Asian Languages -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Life in a Honeybee Colony -- 3 Dream Home for Honeybees -- 4 Scout Bees' Debate -- 5 Agreement on Best Site -- 6 Building a Consensus -- 7 Initiating the Move to New Home -- 8 Steering the Flying Swarm -- 9 Swarm as Cognitive Entity -- 10 Swarm Smarts -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

Anmerkung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. The Issues -- 1.1. The Evolution of Biological Organization -- 1.2. The Honey Bee Colony as a Unit of Function -- 1.3. Analytic Scheme -- 2. The Honey Bee Colony -- 2.1. Worker Anatomy and Physiology -- 2.2. Worker Life History -- 2.3. Nest Architecture -- 2.4. The Annual Cycle of a Colony -- 2.5. Communication about Food Sources -- 2.6. Food Collection and Honey Production -- 3. The Foraging Abilities of a Colony -- 3.1. Exploiting Food Sources over a Vast Region around the Hive -- 3.2. Surveying the Countryside for Rich Food Sources -- 3.3. Responding Quickly to Valuable Discoveries -- 3.4. Choosing among Food Sources -- 3.5. Adjusting Selectivity in Relation to Forage Abundance -- 3.6. Regulating Comb Construction -- 3.7. Regulating Pollen Collection -- 3.8. Regulating Water Collection -- Summary -- Part II: Experimental Analysis -- 4. Methods and Equipment -- 4.1. The Observation Hive -- 4.2. The Hut for the Observation Hive -- 4.3. The Bees -- 4.4. Sugar Water Feeders -- 4.5. Labeling Bees -- 4.6. Measuring the Total Number of Bees Visiting a Feeder -- 4.7. Observing Bees of Known Age -- 4.8. Recording the Behavior of Bees in the Hive -- 4.9. The Scale Hive -- 4.10. Censusing a Colony -- 5. Allocation of Labor among Forage Sites -- How a Colony Acquires Information about Food Sources -- 5.1. Which Bees Gather the Information? -- 5.2. Which Information Is Shared? -- 5.3. Where Information Is Shared inside the Hive -- 5.4. The Coding of Information about Profitability -- 5.5. The Bees' Criterion of Profitability -- 5.6. The Relationship between Nectar-Source Profitability and Waggle Dance Duration -- 5.7. The Adaptive Tuning of Dance Thresholds -- 5.8. How a Forager Determines the Profitability of a Nectar Source -- Summary -- How a Colony Acts on Information about Food Sources. , 5.9. Employed Foragers versus Unemployed Foragers -- 5.10. How Unemployed Foragers Read the Information on the Dance Floor -- 5.11. How Employed Foragers Respond to Information about Food-Source Profitability -- 5.12. The Correct Distribution of Foragers among Nectar Sources -- 5.13. Cross Inhibition between Forager Groups -- 5.14. The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation among Nectar Sources -- Summary -- 6. Coordination of Nectar Collecting and Nectar Processing -- How a Colony Adjusts Its Collecting Ratewith Respect to the External Nectar Supply -- 6.1. Rapid Increase in the Number of Nectar Foragers via the Waggle Dance -- 6.2. Increase in the Number of Bees Committed to Foraging via the Shaking Signal -- How a Colony Adjusts Its Processing Rate with Respect to Its Collecting Rate -- 6.3. Rapid Increase in the Number of Nectar Processors via the Tremble Dance -- 6.4. Which Bees Become Additional Food Storers? -- Summary -- 7. Regulation of Comb Construction -- 7.1. Which Bees Build Comb? -- 7.2. How Comb Builders Know When to Build Comb -- 7.3. How the Quantity of Empty Comb Affects Nectar Foraging -- Summary -- 8. Regulation of Pollen Collection -- 8.1. The Inverse Relationship between Pollen Collection and the Pollen Reserve -- 8.2. How Pollen Foragers Adjust Their Colony's Rate of Pollen Collection -- 8.3. How Pollen Foragers Receive Feedback from the Pollen Reserves -- 8.4. The Mechanism of Indirect Feedback 201 -- 8.5. Why the Feedback Flows Indirectly -- 8.6 How a Colony's Foragers Are Allocated between Pollen and Nectar Collection -- Summary -- 9. Regulation of Water Collection -- 9.1. The Importance of Variable Demand -- 9.2. Patterns of Water and Nectar Collection during Hive Overheating -- 9.3. Which Bees Collect Water? -- 9.4. What Stimulates Bees to Begin Collecting Water?. , 9.5. What Tells Water Collectors to Continue or Stop Their Activity? -- 9.6. Why Does a Water Collector's Unloading Experience Change When Her Colony's Need for Water Changes? -- Summary -- Part III: Overview -- 10. The Main Features of Colony Organization -- 10.1. Division of Labor Based on Temporary Specializations -- 10.2. Absence of Physical Connections between Workers -- 10.3. Diverse Pathways of Information Flow -- 10.4. High Economy of Communication -- 10.5. Numerous Mechanisms of Negative Feedback -- 10.6. Coordination without Central Planning -- 11. Enduring Lessons from the Hive -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Natural History, Systematics, and Phylogenetics -- 3. Development -- 4. Anatomy and Physiology -- 5. Genetics and Genomics -- 6. Neurobiology -- 7. Neuroethology and Cognitive Science -- Color Plates -- 8. Reproduction -- 9. Evolution -- 10. Life History, Ecology, and Nesting Biology -- 11. The Honey Bee Colony Is a Superorganism -- 12. Division of Labor -- 13. Communication, Labor Allocation, and Collective Decision Making -- 14. Chemical Ecology -- 15. Foraging -- 16. Tropical Honey Bees -- 17. Immunity, Parasites, Pests, and Pathogens -- 18. Detoxification and Pesticides -- 19. Honey Bees as Managed Pollinators -- Literature Cited -- Index.