Chapter 2 Opener These sterile worker weaver ants labor together to make leaf nests for the
reproductive benefit of other ants. Why?
Figure 2.1 A group of worker termites escorted by a single large soldier back to their colony
Figure 2.2 A huge number of tiny sterile termites built this immense home for their colony in
Western Australia
Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers
Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers (Part 1)
Figure 2.3 Sacrifices by social insect workers (Part 2)
Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian songbird
Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian songbird (Part 1)
Figure 2.4 The territories of an Australian songbird (Part 2)
Figure 2.5 Gary Larson’s cartoon of presumably suicidal lemmings headed into the ocean
Figure 2.6 How to achieve indirect fitness
Figure 2.7 A foundress female wasp
Figure 2.8 A colony of Dictyostelium discoideum
Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera
Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 1)
Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 2)
Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 3)
Figure 2.9 Haplodiploidy and the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (Part 4)
Figure 2.10 Monogamy and the origin of eusociality by kin selection in the Hymenoptera
Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed and what do they mean?
Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed and what do they mean? (Part 1)
Box 2.3 How are phylogenetic trees constructed and what do they mean? (Part 2)
Figure 2.11 Round dance of honey bees
Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees
Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees (Part 1)
Figure 2.12 Waggle dance of honey bees (Part 2)
Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance communication by honey bees
Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance communication by honey bees (Part 1)
Figure 2.13 Testing directional and distance communication by honey bees (Part 2)
Figure 2.14 The nest of an Asian honey bee, Apis florea, is built out in the open around a branch
Figure 2.15 Communication by scent marking in a stingless bee
Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey bee dance communication system
Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey bee dance communication system (Part 1)
Figure 2.16 Evolutionary history of the honey bee dance communication system (Part 2)
Figure 2.17 Workers and the queen monitor the reproductive behavior of others
Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in which workers that are about to reproduce are detected
by colony mates and physically restrained
Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in which workers that are about to reproduce are detected
by colony mates and physically restrained (Part 1)
Figure 2.18 Conflict within ant colonies in which workers that are about to reproduce are detected
by colony mates and physically restrained (Part 2)
Figure 2.19 A test of the effectiveness of policing
Figure 2.20 The proportion of males produced by workers varies among ants, social bees, and
social wasps
Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to queen production in eusocial Melipona bees
Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to queen production in eusocial Melipona bees (Part 1)
Figure 2.21 Colony kin structure is linked to queen production in eusocial Melipona bees (Part 2)