A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world.
This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects.
Explores the biology and systematics of social insects
Serves as an illustrated treatise on a key scientific area
Covers adjacent topics like subsocial insects and arachnids
Christopher K. Starr
Social insects Bees Ants Honeybees Wasps Spiders Termites Pollination and agriculture Entomology Model invertebrates