Journey to the Ants

A Story of Scientific Exploration

Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

• Editorial: Belknap Press
• Año: 1998
• ISBN:
  9780674254589
• Categoría: Sciences biologiques
• Categoría: Biologie

Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.

Index

abundance, of ants, 1

acacia ants, 200–202

Acanthapsis (assassin bug), 134

Acanthognathus, 2

Acanthomyops (citronella ants), 56

Acropyga, 147

Aenictus (army ants), 168

Allotinus (blue, butterfly), 155

altruism, genetics and origin of, 95–106

amazon ants. See Polyergus

Amblyopone, 83–84

Amphotis (beetles), 134

Andersen, Alan, 199

ant gardens, 204

ant plants, 200–204

Aphaenogaster, 55

aphids, 143–147

army ants, 33–34, 107–110, 157–174. See also Dorylus; Eciton; Leptanilla; Neivamyrmex

assassin bugs, 134–135

Atemeles (rove beetle), 136–138

Atta (leafcutter ants), 54, 111–122

Autrum, Hans-Jochem, 18

Baltic amber. See fossils

Banks, Joseph, 47–48

Bartz, Stephen, 86–88

Basiceros (camouflaged ants), 185–187

Beck, L., 6

beetles, 133–134, 136–141

behavioral repertory, 107

Belt, Thomas, 159, 201

Bhatkar, Awinash, 219

Bhatkar diet, 219

biomass, 1, 6

birds, with army ants, 161

blues (butterflies), 151–155

Boveri, Theodor, 17–18

Brachymyrmex, 107–108

Bradshaw, John, 46

Brandäo, C. Roberto, 79, 183

Brown, James, 198–199

Brown, William L., 77, 80, 180–181

bulldog ants. See Myrmecia

Buschinger, Alfred, 126

butterflies, 151–155, 161

camouflage, 185–187

Camponotus, 30, 52, 55, 67, 103–104, 105, 107–108, 203–204

Cariridris, 79

Carlin, Norman, 103–104

Carpenter, Frank M., 18, 76

carpenter ants. See Camponotus

caste, 111–122, 159–160

Cataglyphis, 95, 193

chemical communication, 42, 44–47, 88, 137–141

Cherix, Daniel, 40

Cladomyrma, 147

Clark, John, 80

class structure, 91–93

climate control, 191–204

Cole, Blaine, 90

collecting ants, 209–212

colony founding, 34–35, 113

colony odor, 101–104, 123

colony replacement, 38–39

colony size, 29, 115

communication, 41–58

competition, 8–12

conflict, within colonies, 85–93. See also territory; wars

cooperation, 95–106

corpse disposal, 105–106

Cuba, 187–188

culturing ants, 213–224

dacetine ants, 178–182

Daceton (trap-jawed ants), 181–182

Darwin, Charles, 96–98

Davidson, Diane, 203–204

Dejean, Alain, 180

Diacamma, 90, 195

Diniz, J. L. M., 183

diversity, 3–7

Dolichoderus, 135, 147–151

dominance, 85–93

Dorylus (driver ants), 107–110, 167–168

driver ants. See Dorylus

drone. See male ants

dueling, 91–93

dulosis, 126–131

Eciton (army ants), 132–133, 157–168, 171

egg eating, 88

environmental control, 191–204

Escherich, Karl, 17–18

ethology, 13–14

evolution. See geological history, phylogeny

exploding ants, 67

Fiedler, Konrad, 153–154

Finland, 2–3

fire ants. See Solenopsis

Fittkau, E. J., 6

foreign policy, 68–73

Forel, Auguste, 128

Forelius, 64–65

Formica, 2–3, 10–11, 33, 39–40, 130–131, 13...