All evidence currently available indicates that obligatory sterile eusocial castes only arose
via the association of lifetime monogamous parents and offspring. This is consistent with …

Insect societies–colonies of ants, bees, wasps and termites–vary enormously in their social
complexity. Social complexity is a broadly used term that encompasses many individual and …

Trophallaxis is a complex social fluid exchange emblematic of social insects and of ants in
particular. Trophallaxis behaviors are present in approximately half of all ant genera …

The broad limits of mature colony size in social insect species are likely to be set by
ecological factors. However, any change in colony size has a number of important social …

▪ Abstract Social Hymenoptera show two contrasting strategies of colony reproduction. A
reproductive female can raise the first generation of brood alone (independent foundation) …

In insect societies lacking morphologically specialized breeders and helpers, reproduction is
often restricted to behaviorally dominant individuals. Such societies occur in about 100 …

In this book, the biologist Raghavendra Gadagkar focuses on the single species he has
worked on throughout his career. Found throughout southern India, Ropalidia marginata is a …

Many insects and arthropods live in colonies or aggregations of varying size. Group size
may affect collective organization either because the same individual behavior has different …

Body size is a key life-history trait influencing all aspects of an organism's biology. Ants
provide an interesting model for examining body-size variation because of the high degree …

Across terrestrial ecosystems, modern ants are ubiquitous. As many as 94 out of every 100
individual arthropods in rainforests are ants [1], and they constitute up to 15% of animal …