Front cover; Contents; Preface; The Editors; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Foraging Decisions, Patterns, and Strategies; Chapter 1. Measuring the Adaptiveness of Social Insect Foraging Strategies: An Empirical Approach*; Chapter 2. Social Cues and Adaptive Foraging Strategies in Ants; Chapter 3. Individual and Social Foraging in Social Wasps; Chapter 4. Season-Dependent Foraging Patterns: Case Study of Neotropical Forest-Dwelling Ant (Pachycondyla striata; Ponerinae); Chapter 5. Foraging Range and the Spatial Distribution of Worker Bumble Bees
Summary
Presents information on foraging ecology, individual search and social recruitment behaviors, and theoretical models of foraging and food exploitation among ants, bees, and wasps alike. This work employs mathematical models to map coordinate processes and unites traditional studies with theoretical approaches
