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social insect

any insect which lives in organized social groups; examples are ants, wasps, bees and termites, where different morphological forms carry out different duties within the colony
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On the other hand, a much larger repository of comparison, from human society back to insects, provided explanations of insect sociality, carrying Western conceptions of race, gender, and class into the classification and documentation of the behaviour of social insects.
Diane M. Rodgers, Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects
Why Are Social Insects Among the World's Most Amazing Builders?
Social insects
Social parasitism is particularly common among ants (Holldobler and Wilson, 1990; Bourke and Franks, 1995) and has been extensively studied in these and other social insects (Stuart, 2002).
Social parasitism in mammals with particular reference to Neotropical primates
Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in social insects.
Conflicts of interest in social insects: male production in two species of Polistes
Relatedness coefficients in social insect colonies have profound implications for how colonies produce sexual offspring (Trivets and Hare 1976).
Integrating molecular techniques with field methods in studies of social behavior: a revolution results
Kerr, Camargo had the opportunity to work with the leading social insect scientist in Brazil at the time.
Joao Maria Franco De Camargo (Anhembi, SP, 20 JUNE 1941--Ribeirao Preto, SP, 7 September 2009)
These agent behaviours, take inspiration of social insect behaviours.
On self-organising mechanisms from social, business and economic domains
Hamilton (1964, 1970) and Price (1970) showed us how to think about the evolution of self-organized systems, such as social insect colonies, that do not have genetic identity, but genetic relatedness.
Evolution of self-organized systems
The existence of sterile individuals in social insect colonies poses an evolutionary paradox, namely the difficulty of perpetuating sterility by natural selection when bearers of this trait leave no offspring.
Microsatellites reveal high population viscosity and limited dispersal in the ant Formica paralugubris
Objective: The hallmark of social insect colonies is reproductive division of labour which is often associated with dramatic morphological and behavioural differences between queens, workers and males.
Social life: The evolution of social life and division of labour
The vast majority of acarine species in most social insect nests are scavengers or predators on other arthropods and do not adversely affect the ecology of the host (Eickwort, 1990).
Observations on Mites (Arachnida: Acari) Associated with Three Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia
Crozier was also among the first scientists to investigate and study the genetic structure of social insect populations using effective empirical and statistical methods.
Ross H. Crozier (1943-2009)

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