Sex on Six Legs
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], [>]–[>]
driver ants, [>], [>]
fire ants, [>]
genome sequencing and, [>]–[>]
gypsy ants, [>]
harvester ants, [>]
honeydew, [>], [>]
honeypot ants, [>]
human views of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
individual recognition, [>]–[>]
leafcutter ants, [>]–[>]
legionary ants, [>]
memory, [>]
Pachycondyla villosa, [>]–[>]
personality, [>]
queens, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
social ranking, [>]
"stigmergy," [>]
in Sword in the Stone, The (White), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
tandem running, [>], [>], [>], [>]
teaching and, [>]–[>]
trophyllaxis, [>]
warfare, [>], [>]–[>]
wood ants, [>]
Zuk as child and, [>]–[>], [>]
See also social insects; specific types
ants, army
description, [>]
gender and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as hunters, [>], [>], [>]
life history, [>]–[>]
queens, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
raids/bivouac behavior, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
range, [>]
scientists using, [>]
story of studying, [>]–[>]
term, [>]
use as sutures, [>]–[>]
Zuk (as child) on, [>]–[>]
ants decision making
carrying ants to new site, [>], [>], [>]
food and traveling distance, [>]–[>]
food selection/moving, [>]
house-hunting activities, [>]–[>]
odor trails and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
reconnaissance and, [>]–[>]
ants, slave-making
coevolution and, [>]–[>]
evolution of, [>]–[>]
geographic variability in, [>]–[>]
human slavery and, [>], [>], [>]
human views of, [>]–[>]
methods description, [>], [>], [>], [>]
obligate slave-making ants, [>], [>]
overview, [>]–[>]
parasitism analogy, [>]–[>]
as "pirate ants," [>], [>]
range, [>]
terminology and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
timing of raids, [>]
virulence studies, [>]
Ants, The (Hölldobler and Wilson), [>]
aphids, [>], [>], [>], [>]
archy the cockroach, [>], [>]–[>]
Aristotle, [>], [>], [>]
Ash, Lesley, [>]–[>]
Bagemihl, Bruce, [>]
bats
Asian bent-winged bat, [>]
echolocation, [>]
Beebe, William, [>]–[>]
Beekman, Madeleine, [>], [>]
Bee Movie, [>]–[>]
bees
blueberry bees, [>]
blue orchard bees, [>]
killer bees, [>]
mason bees, [>]–[>]
Melipona, [>]
red dwarf bees, [>]–[>]
scent marks and, [>]–[>]
squash bees, [>]
stingless bees, [>], [>]–[>]
vision, [>]
See also honeybees
beetles
about, [>], [>]
blister beetles, [>]–[>]
burying beetles, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
chrysanthemum longicorn beetles (Phytoecia rufiventris), [>]–[>]
diversity, [>]
dung beetles, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
genome sequencing and, [>]–[>], [>]
horned dung beetles (Onthophagus), [>]
ladybird beetles (ladybugs), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
behavioral syndrome, [>]
Beibl, Jeannette, [>]
Bell, Alison, [>]
Berle, Milton, [>]
Biological Exuberance (Bagemihl), [>]
Björk, [>]
bonobos, [>], [>]
Bonsall, Michael, [>]
Book of Lists, The, [>], [>]
brains
much-used behavior and, [>]
mushroom body, [>]
Brenner, Sydney, [>]
Briceño, R. Daniel, [>]
brood parasitism
birds, [>], [>], [>], [>]
coevolution, [>]
egg dumping, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
bugs
African bat bugs, [>]–[>]
aphids, [>], [>], [>], [>]
assassin bugs, [>], [>]–[>]
bedbugs, [>]
burrower bugs, [>]
giant water bugs, [>], [>]–[>]
lace bugs, [>], [>]
mouthparts, [>]–[>], [>]
parenting examples, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
shield-backed bugs, [>]
Butler, Charles, [>]–[>]
butterflies
cabbage white butterflies, [>], [>]
checkerspot butterfly eggs, [>]
genome size, [>], [>]
mating behavior, [>], [>], [>]
Mazarine blue butterflies, [>]
Pieridae, [>]
same-sex courtship, [>]
Satyridae, [>]
vision, [>]
Calverley, Charles Stuart, [>], [>]
cannibalism with infanticide, [>]–[>]
caterpillars, tent
food selection/group decisions, [>]–[>]
personality, [>]–[>]
as pests, [>]–[>]
Chapman, Tracey, [>]
"charismatic megafauna," [>]
Charlotte's Web (White), [>]
"chemical genitalia," [>]–[>]
chickens, [>]
chikungunya virus, [>]
chimpanzees, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Chomsky, Noam, [>]–[>]
chromosomes
description, [>]
numbers of, [>]
sex chromosomes, [>], [>]–[>]
cockroaches
archy, [>], [>]–[>]
genome size, [>]
jewel wasps and, [>]–[>], [>]
parenting, [>]
coevolution, [>]–[>]
communication
ants changing odor trails, [>]
flying vs. walking species, [>]–[>]
human language "uniqueness" and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
odor and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
odor detection genes, [>]
pheromones, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
See also decision making; honeybees dance communication
Cordero, Carlos, [>]–[>]
Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex, [>]
corn plants as research subjects, [>]–[>]
counting
by insects, [>]–[>]
by vertebrates, [>]
cowbirds, [>], [>], [>], [>]
crickets
about, [>]
ancient Chinese cricket fights, [>]–[>]
behavior, [>]–[>]
black field crickets, [>]
genome size, [>]
learning and, [>]
mate calling and parasitism, [>]–[>]
personality, [>]–[>]
refinding sites, [>]–[>]
singing and temperature, [>]–[>]
spermatophores, [>]
Teleogryllus oceanicus, [>]–[>]
Crist, Eileen, [>]
Crompton, John, [>]–[>], [>]
crows, [>], [>]
cryptic female choice
chemicals and, [>]–[>]
description, [>]–[>]
ejection of sperm, [>]
eusperm/parasperm and, [>]–[>]
examples, [>]–[>]
flour beetle experiments, [>]–[>]
moth experiments, [>]
nuptial gifts vs. forced
matings, [>]–[>]
seminal receptacle size and, [>]–[>]
spermatophores/attachment, [>]–[>]
spermatophylax and, [>]
sperm size, [>]–[>]
cuckoos, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Cunningham, David Douglas, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
cyborgs, [>], [>]–[>]
cytosine (C), [>]
Dacke, Marie, [>]–[>]
damselflies
blue-tailed damselflies, [>]–[>]
male genitalia/mating, [>], [>]
same-sex courtship, [>]–[>], [>]
Darwin, Charles
on ants, [>], [>], [>]
emotions in animals, [>]–[>]
gene perpetuation, [>]
"inheritance of acquired characteristics" and, [>]–[>]
insects and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
social insects and, [>]
teaching concept, [>]
Dawkins, Richard, [>], [>]
decision making
consensus/combined decisions, [>]–[>]
group decision and, [>]–[>]
tent caterpillars and, [>]–[>]
trained honeybees and, [>]
See also ants decision making
dengue fever, [>]
Dethier, Vincent, [>], [>]
D'Ettorre, Patrizia, [>], [>]
DNA
changes in, [>]
chemical bases of, [>]
chromosomes and, [>]
junk DNA, [>]
noncoding DNA, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
transposable elements (selfish DNA), [>]–[>]
See also genome; genome sequencing
"DNA constancy" hypothesis, [>]
dopamine, [>]
dragonflies, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Drosophila. See fruit flies
Dukas, Reuven, [>], [>]
dulosis, [>]
Dung Beetle Crusade, Australia, [>]
Dyer, Adrian, [>]–[>], [>]
Earache Records, [>]
earwigs, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Eberhard, Bill
background, [>]
insect mating/genitalia, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
spider mating, [>]–[>]
ecological services of insects
overview, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
See also specific insects; specific services
egg dumping
about, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
constraints on, [>]–[>]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [>]
Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation, [>]–[>]
Esch, H., [>]–[>]
eusperm, [>]–[>]
Evans, Jay, [>], [>]–[>]
Evans, Ted, [>]–[>]
Evening Sun, New York, [>]–[>]
evolution
coevolution, [>]–[>]
DNA changes and, [>]
experimental evolution, [>]–[>]
frequency-dependent selection, [>]–[>]
genetic variability explanations, [>]–[>]
imperfection and, [>], [>]–[>]
independent repeating evolution, [>]
insect variety and, [>]–[>]
mate calling and parasitism, [>]–[>]
mutations and, [>], [>], [>]
natural selection and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
passing on genes, [>]–[>]
personality and, [>]–[>]
principle of, [>]–[>]
slave-making ants, [>]–[>]
testes size, [>], [>]–[>]
tradeoffs, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
evolution of parenting/family
egg dumping, [>]–[>]
infanticide with cannibalism, [>]–[>]
insect, diversity and, [>], [>]
natural selection and preadaptations, [>]
pair defense and, [>]
passing on genes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
questions on, [>]
studying birds and, [>]
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), [>]–[>]
exterminator incident, [>]
Fabre, Jean-Henri, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
face blindness (prosopagnosia), [>]
Featherstone, Dave, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Fedina, Tatyana, [>]
Feeling for the Organism, A (Keller), [>]–[>]
Feminine Monarchie, The (Butler), [>]–[>]
fertilization myopia, [>]
fireflies, [>]
fish
sunfish, [>], [>], [>]
zebra fish, [>]–[>]
Fisher, Sir R.A., [>]
Fitch, Tecumseh, [>]–[>]
fleas, [>], [>], [>]
flies
Delhi Sands flower-loving flies, [>]
dung flies, [>]–[>]
genome size, [>], [>]
Hessian flies, [>]
houseflies, [>]
living on water lilies, [>]
See also fruit flies
Foitzik, Susanne, [>]–[>], [>]
Forgotten Pollinators Campaign, Arizona, [>]
Franklin, Benjamin, [>], [>]
Franks, Nigel, [>], [>]–[>]
frequency-dependent selection, [>]–[>]
frog, African clawed, [>]
fruit flies
Anopheles gambiae and, [>]
artificial selection and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
distraction and, [>]–[>]
Drosophila bifurca, [>]–[>], [>]