Ecdysone: From Metabolism to Regulation of Gene Expression by Mary Bownes

The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture

Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year company. however the priceless honey bee now faces serious threats from ailments, mites, insecticides, and overwork, let alone the mysterious Colony cave in sickness, which explanations probably fit bees to desert their hives en masse, by no means to come back. within the Quest for the fitting Hive, entomologist Gene Kritsky deals a concise, fantastically illustrated heritage of beekeeping, tracing the evolution of hive layout from old Egypt to the current.

Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals

Bugs and natural world: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals presents a finished evaluation of the interrelationships of bugs and natural world. It serves as an advent to bugs and different arthropods for flora and fauna administration and different vertebrate biology scholars, and emphasizes the significance of bugs to wild vertebrate animals.

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity)

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be seen as robust problem-solving platforms with subtle collective intelligence. Composed of straightforward interacting brokers, this intelligence lies within the networks of interactions between members and among participants and the surroundings. a desirable topic, social bugs also are a strong metaphor for man made intelligence, and the issues they solve--finding meals, dividing exertions between nestmates, development nests, responding to exterior challenges--have vital opposite numbers in engineering and desktop technology.

Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) represent one of many biggest households of freshwater bugs (~ 4,200 species). even if dytiscid adults and larvae are ubiquitous all through a number of aquatic habitats and are major predators on different aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates, there aren't any compilations that experience occupied with summarizing the data in their ecology, systematics, and biology.