Sex on Six Legs_ Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World - Marlene Zuk [113]
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, [>]
Briceñ o, 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, [>], [>], [>], [>]