- Foreword [Edward O. Wilson]
- I. Origin and Spread, Present and Future Range
- Prelude: And What Do You Do for a Living?
- 1. A Quick Tour of Fire Ant Biology
- 2. The Species of Fire Ants and Their Biogeography
- 3. An Atlas of Fire Ant Anatomy
- 4. Getting There
- Interlude: Beachhead Mobile
- 5. La Conquista: Spreading Out
- Interlude: Another Immigrant Moves West
- 6. Predicting Future Range Limits
- II. Basic Needs and the Monogyne Colony Cycle
- An Important Note: Monogyne and Polygyne Social Forms
- 7. Shelter
- Interlude: There’s Nothing Like Getting Plastered
- 8. Space
- 9. Food
- Interlude: Mundane Methods
- 10. Mating and Colony Founding
- Interlude: Spring among the Fire Ants
- 11. The Claustral Period
- Interlude: Sharon’s House of Beauty
- 12. The Incipient Phase and Brood Raiding
- 13. Dependent Colony Founding
- 14. Colony Growth
- 15. Relative Growth and Sociogenesis
- Interlude: The Porter Wedge Micrometer
- 16. Colony Reproduction and the Seasonal Cycle
- III. Family Life
- Interlude: Deby Discovers Ants
- 17. Nestmate and Brood Recognition
- Interlude: Ant ID Systems
- 18. Division of Labor
- Interlude: Moving Up in a Harvester Ant Colony
- 19. Adaptive Demography
- Interlude: Driving to Work with Odontomachus
- 20. The Organization of Foraging
- Interlude: Who’s in Charge Here?
- 21. Food Sharing within the Colony
- Interlude: The Fire Ant on Trial
- 22. Venom and Its Uses
- Interlude: You Call That Pain!?
- 23. Social Control of the Queen’s Egg-laying Rate
- Interlude: Catching Queens
- 24. Necrophoric Behavior
- IV. Polygyny
- 25. Discovery of Polygyny
- Interlude: I Want This to Be Accurate
- 26. The Suppression of Independent Colony Founding in Polygyne Colonies
- 27. The Nature and Fate of Polygyne Alates
- Interlude: A Useful Tool
- 28. Polygyne Mating, Adoption, Execution
- 29. Biological Consequences of Polygyny
- V. Populations and Ecology
- 30. Hybridization between Solenopsis invicta and S. richteri
- 31. Populations of Monogyne Fire Ants
- Interlude: Gang Wars
- 32. Territorial Behavior and Monogyne Population Regulation
- 33. Ecological Niche
- 34. Solenopsis invicta and Ant Community Ecology
- Interlude: Membership in a Prestigious Organization
- 35. Solenopsis invicta and Other Communities
- 36. Fire Ants and Vertebrates
- Interlude: A Microsafari in Antland
- 37. Biological Control
- Interlude: The Heartbreak of Parasitoids
- Some Final Words
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- [Color plates follow page 280]
The Fire Ants
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$29.95 • £22.95 • €27.00
ISBN 9780674072404
Publication: March 2013
744 pages
7 x 9-1/4 inches
53 color illustrations, 23 halftones, 188 line illustrations, 9 tables
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