Wasps Social And Solitary

Author : Sarah A. Corbet
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781784270339
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solitary Wasps written by Sarah A. Corbet and published by Pelagic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Naturalists' Handbook book covers the natural history, biology and identification of the hoverfly. It will enable anyone to identify the most common hoverflies of the British Isles, providing practical guidance for methods of identification, advice on techniques and approaches to research.

Author : George Williams Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.LP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps, Social and Solitary written by George Williams Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Holm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991356317
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps written by Heather Holm and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WASPS is the first full-color, illustrated guide featuring approximately 150 species of flower-visiting wasps that occur in eastern North America, and the specific native plants and habitat each species depends upon. Written with an ecological lens, this richly-illustrated book details wasp diversity and has full-page profiles for each wasp species that include identification tips, geographic range maps, biology, prey, natural history and habitat. Five introductory chapters cover wasp taxonomy, nesting biology, prey-hunting behaviors, diet, anatomy, as well as wasp habitat enhancement and management, and the ecosystem services provided by wasps-insect pest population control and pollination. Profiles of each wasp species comprise the major part of the book and are organized by family, showcasing twelve families and sixty-eight wasp genera. Also included are eastern North American regional native plant guides, tips on wasp observation, and over 1000 stunning photographs. This is an essential book for conservationists, naturalists, insect enthusiasts, biologists, nature photographers, native plant aficionados, and anyone interested in beneficial insects and pollinators.

Author : Kevin M. O'Neill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437212
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solitary Wasps written by Kevin M. O'Neill and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History is the first general survey of the subject in more than 25 years and is the best place to turn for information about the biology and compelling behavior of these common insects. Topics covered in Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History include: classification of the solitary wasps and their relation to other Hymenoptera; foraging and nesting behaviors; mating and parental strategies; thermoregulation; natural enemies; defensive strategies; and directions for future research."--Jacket.

Author : George Williams Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps, Social and Solitary written by George Williams Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Philip Spradbery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps written by J. Philip Spradbery and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth G. Ross
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718673
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Biology of Wasps written by Kenneth G. Ross and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of the book opens with a review of the classification of the family Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids. The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M. Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar. Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura. Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G. Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

Author : Elizabeth G. Peckham
Publisher : HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps written by Elizabeth G. Peckham and published by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Long since I wrote to a friend, a nature lover, as follows: “The most charming monograph in any department of our natural history that I have read in many a year is on our solitary wasps, by George W. Peckham and his wife, of Wisconsin,—a work so delightful and instructive that it is a great pity it is not published in some popular series of nature books, where it could reach its fit audience, instead of being handicapped as a State publication.” This end has now been brought about, and the book—revised and enlarged with much new material and many new illustrations—placed within easy reach of all nature lovers, to whom it gives me pleasure to commend it. It is a wonderful record of patient, exact, and loving observation, which has all the interest of a romance. It opens up a world of Lilliput right at our feet, wherein the little people amuse and delight us with their curious human foibles and whimsicalities, and surprise us with their intelligence and individuality. Here I had been saying in print that I looked upon insects as perfect automata, and all of the same class as nearly alike as the leaves of the trees or the sands upon the beach. I had not reckoned with the Peckhams and their solitary wasps. The solitary ways of these insects seem to bring out their individual traits, and they differ one from another, more than any other wild creatures known to me. It has been thought that man is the only tool-using animal, yet here is one of these wasps, Ammophila, that uses a little pebble to pound down the earth over her nest. She takes the pebble in her mandibles, as you or I would take a stone in our hand, and uses it as a hammer to pound down the soil above the cavity that holds her egg. This is a remarkable fact; so far as I know there is no other animal on this continent that makes any mechanical use of an object or substance foreign to its own body in this way. The act stamps Ammophila as a tool-using animal. I am free to confess that I have had more delight in reading this book than in reading any other nature book in a long time. Such a queer little people as it reveals to us, so whimsical, so fickle, so fussy, so forgetful, so wise and yet so foolish, such victims of routine and yet so individual, with such apparent foresight and yet such thoughtlessness, finding their way back to the same square inch of earth in the monotonous expanse of a wide plowed field with unfailing accuracy, and then at times finishing their cell and sealing it up without the spider and the egg; hardly any two alike; one nervous and excitable, another calm and unhurried; one careless in her work, another neat and thorough; this one suspicious, that one confiding; one species digging its burrow before it captures its game, others capturing the game and then digging the hole; one wasp hanging its spider up in the fork of a weed to keep it away from the ants while it works at its nest, and then running to it every moment or two to see that it is safe; another laying the insect on the ground while it digs,—verily a queer little people, with a lot of wild nature about them, and of human nature, too.

Author : E. G. Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasps, Social and Solitary written by E. G. Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Devon McKinney
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508142831
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watch Out for Wasps! written by Devon McKinney and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings readers face-to-face with the stinging backyard pest we all love to hate—the wasp. Readers will learn about wasp anatomy, behavior, and habitat, as well as its ability to make nests and form colonies. This book also explores the difference between social and solitary wasps, and which wasps to watch out for. Color photographs bring readers up close to this creepy critter, as engaging text and fact boxes hook the reader’s interest. This information-rich and exciting book is well supported by life sciences curricula. Readers’ minds are sure to buzz with compelling facts about this backyard beast!