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Social life among the insects : being a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in March 1922

Title
Social life among the insects : being a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in March 1922 / by William Morton Wheeler.
Author
Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.
Publication
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923.

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Description
vii, 375 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Insects
  • Insecta
  • Insecta (class)
  • Insects
  • Insecta (Sistematica)
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Previously published in the Scientific monthly, June, 1922, to February, 1923. cf. Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Documentary appendix": p. 285-355.
Contents
General remarks on insect societies: the social beetles -- Wasps, solitary and social -- Bees, solitary and social -- Ants, their development, castes, nesting and feeding habits -- Parasitic ants and ant guests -- The termites, or "white-ants."
LCCN
23012888
OCLC
  • ocm01507903
  • 1507903
  • SCSB-309271
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library