Honeybee Ecology (eBook)

A Study of Adaptation in Social Life

Thomas D. Seeley (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5787-6 (ISBN)

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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Action potential • adaptive Radiation • African bee • American foulbrood • apamin • apiary • Apis cerana • Apis dorsata • Apis florea • Army ant • Ballooning (spider) • BEE • Bee-Eater • Beehive • beekeeper • Beekeeping • beeswax • Bird nest • Brood (honey bee) • Calculation • Cascade effect (ecology) • chemical weapon • Colias eurytheme • defecation • domestication • Dufour's gland • Effective population size • Egg • European bee-eater • Eusociality • Evolution • Fecundity • female • flower garden • Food storage • foraging • Frugality • fungus • Gamete • Heritability • homeostasis • Honey Badger • honey bee • Hydrogen Peroxide • Hymenoptera • Inbreeding • Insectes Sociaux • Insect wing • Insemination • Italian bee • Johnston's organ • Juvenile hormone • Karl von Frisch • kin selection • larva • live food • mating • Mating yard • National Geographic Society • Natural selection • Nectar source • Nest • Nosema (microsporidian) • Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus • Nuptial flight • odor • Oecophylla smaragdina • Ovariole • Ovary • overwintering • Papaver rhoeas • parasitism • Petiole (insect anatomy) • Pheromone • Pollen • Pollen source • pollinator • predation • Propolis • pupa • queen bee • Queen excluder • Reproductive success • Rhesus Macaque • rodent • royal jelly • Sperm • Spermatheca • Staphylococcus aureus • stingless bee • sucrose • Swarming (honey bee) • Thermoregulation • Transplant experiment • Trap-lining • waggle dance • Wasp • western honey bee • Winter cluster • worker bee
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5787-2 / 1400857872
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5787-6 / 9781400857876