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Provides the first comprehensive overview of fundamental concepts of animal behavior as they relate to insects. Offers a comparative evolutionary approach that shows how major behavioral systems function. Covers the behavior of the individual insect—how it moves, orients, disperses, and feeds; also insect communication, and defensive, reproductive, and social behaviors. Case studies explore selected principles in relation to specific situations and provide examples of behavioral methodology. Contains complete, accessible references in each chapter.
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For thirty years, Insect Behavior served as students’ sole overview of a field of study that is growing exponentially. Considerably updated and expanded, this second edition still retains its constructive balance between modern developments and historical insights, between new examples and old, between empirical work and theory, and between pertinent conclusions and the dynamic field and laboratory experiences from which such discoveries arise. Twenty-six case studies, 45 new color plates and 173 figures (over 40% of them new) add richness to the well-written, accessible text.
About the Author
Robert W. Matthews is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia. An insect behavior specialist, his scientific publications number over 165 research articles. Janice R. Matthews is a writer and educator with a broad background in the biological sciences. The two scientists have collaborated in entomological field studies in Australia, South and Central America, and the U.S.A. and have co-authored a number of technical and popular articles and books. They have six grown children and a Labradoodle.
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