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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Biology of Hover Wasps
  name:
    name part: Turillazzi, Stefano.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 272 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book represents the culmination of the author’s lifetime work on a single fascinating group of insects, the hover wasps, Stenogastrinae. The author explores the biology of these little-known wasps at the threshold of sociality, presenting an ambitious survey of ideas about their evolution and an assessment of the current standing of controversial concepts. Following taxonomic and morphological descriptions, the behaviour, colonial dynamics, social communication and especially the remarkably diverse nests of wasps are discussed. Compared to the better-known species of paper wasps, hornets and yellowjackets, the hover wasps show various peculiarities, such as characteristics of immature brood rearing, nest defence and mating systems. The nest architecture probably presents the most variable solutions in social wasps and is characterized by an astonishing level of camouflage, making these insects an interesting example of special adaptation to forest environments.
  table of contents: The Hover Wasps -- Morphology and Anatomy -- Behaviour -- Colonial Dynamics -- Social Communication -- The Nest of Hover Wasps -- The Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and the Hover Wasps.
  note: by Stefano Turillazzi.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  classification: QL461-599.82
  classification: 595.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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