Honeybee Ecology (eBook)

A Study of Adaptation in Social Life

Thomas D. Seeley (Autor)

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2025
316 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27359-4 (ISBN)

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From the acclaimed author of Honeybee Democracy, a classic account of the ecological factors that shape the social lives of honeybeesFor many years, research on honeybee social life dealt primarily with the physiological processes underlying the social system of the bee rather than the ecological factors that have shaped its societies. Thomas Seeley's landmark book unites the two approaches, emphasizing ecological studies of honeybee social behavior while also offering fresh perspectives on honeybee behavior and communication. It covers a broad range of topics, from adaptiveness of worker sterility and the economics of nest construction to information-center foraging, individual versus colony level selection, sex ratio evolution, colonial thermoregulation, evolution of colony defense, and adaptive radiation in colony design. Honeybee Ecology presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: African bee • American foulbrood • apamin • apiary • Apis cerana • Apis dorsata • Apis florea • Army ant • BEE • Beehive • beekeeper • Beekeeping • beeswax • Bird nest • Brood (honey bee) • Colias eurytheme • defecation • Dufour's gland • Effective population size • Egg • European bee-eater • Eusociality • foraging • fungus • Gamete • Honey Badger • honey bee • Hymenoptera • Inbreeding • Insect wing • Italian bee • Juvenile hormone • Karl von Frisch • kin selection • larva • live food • mating • Mating yard • National Geographic Society • Nectar source • Nest • Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus • Nuptial flight • odor • Oecophylla smaragdina • Ovary • parasitism • Petiole (insect anatomy) • Pheromone • Pollen source • pollinator • predation • Propolis • pupa • queen bee • Queen excluder • Reproductive success • Rhesus Macaque • royal jelly • Sperm • Spermatheca • stingless bee • Swarming (honey bee) • Transplant experiment • Trap-lining • waggle dance • Wasp • western honey bee • Winter cluster • worker bee
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27359-6 / 0691273596
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27359-4 / 9780691273594