The Social Biology of Wasps

Abstract

Introduction / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- PART I: THE SOCIAL BIOLOGY OF THE VESPIDAE: Phylogenetic relationships and the origin of social behavior in the Vespidae / James M. Carpenter -- The soliditary and presocial Vespidae / David P. Cowan -- The Stenogastrinae / Stefano Turillazzi -- Polistes / Hudson K. Reeve -- Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and independent-founding Ropalidia / Raghavendra Gadagkar -- The swarm-founding Polistinae / Robert L. Jeanne -- Vespa and Provespa / Makoto Matsuura -- Dolichovespula and Vespula / Albert Greene -- PART II: SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE SOCIAL BIOLOGY OF WASPS: Reproductive competition during the colony establishment / Peter-Frank Roseler -- Evolution of queen number and queen control / J. Philip Spradbery -- Polyethism / Robert L. Jeanne -- Nourishment and the evolution of social Vespidae / James H. Hunt -- Population genetic structure, relatedness, and breeding systems / Kenneth G. Ross and James M. Carpenter -- Evolution of nest architecture / John W. Wenzel -- The nest as the locus of social life / Christopher K. Starr -- The function and evolution of exocrine glands / Holly A. Downing -- Evolution of social behavior in sphecid Wasps / Robert W. Matthews.