@inbook {33441,
	title = {The fire ants},
	year = {2006},
	note = {Part of FORMIS 07; from NAL{\textquoteright}s AGRICOLA; from Fire Ant Literature Database; from-DPW, },
	pages = {747, 16 p. of plates},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	organization = {Harvard University Press},
	address = {Cambridge, MA},
	abstract = {Contents Note:     I: ORIGIN AND SPREAD, PRESENT AND FUTURE RANGE:  Prelude: And what do you do for a living? -- A quick tour of fire  ant biology -- The species of fire ants and their  biogeography -- An atlas of fire ant anatomy -- Getting here -- Interlude: Beachhead mobile -- La Conquista: spreading out -- Interlude: Another immigrant moves west -- Predicting future range limits -- II: BASIC NEEDS AND THE MONOGYNE COLONY CYCLE: An important note: Monogyne and polygyne social forms -- Shelter -- Interlude:  There{\textquoteright}s nothing like getting plastered -- Space -- Food  -- Interlude: Mundane methods -- Mating and colony founding -- Interlude: Spring among the fire ants -- The claustral period -- Interlude: Sharon{\textquoteright}s house of beauty -- The incipient phase and brood raiding -- Dependent colony founding -- Colony growth -- Relative growth and  sociogenesis -- Interlude: The Porter Wedge micrometer -- Colony reproduction and the seasonal cycle -- III: FAMILY LIFE: Interlude: Debby discovers ants -- Nestmate and brood recognition -- Interlude: Ant ID systems -- Division of labor -- Interlude: Moving up in a Harvester Ant colony -- Adaptive demography -- Interlude: Driving to work with Odontomachus -- The organization of foraging -- Interlude: Who{\textquoteright}s in charge here? -- Food sharing within the colony -- Interlude: The Fire Ant on trial -- Venom and its uses -- Interlude: You call that pain? -- Social control of the Queen{\textquoteright}s egg-laying rate -- Interlude: Catching queens -- Necrophoric behavior -- IV: POLYGYNY: Discovery of polygyny -- Interlude: I want this to be accurate --The suppression of independent -- colony founding in polygyne colonies -- The nature and fate of polygyne alates -- Interlude: A useful tool  --Polygyne mating, adoption, execution -- Biological consequences of polygyny -- V: POPULATIONS AND ECOLOGY: Hybridization between Solenopsis invicta and S. Richteri -- Populations of monogyne Fire Ants -- Interlude: Gang wars -- Territorial behavior and monogyne population regulation -- Ecological niche -- Solenopsis invicta and ant community ecology -- Interlude: Membership in a prestigious organization -- Solenopsis invicta and other communities -- Fire ants and vertebrates -- Interlude: a microsafari in antland -- Biological control -- Interlude: The heartbreak of parasitoids -- Some final words.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-706) and index.},
	author = {Tschinkel, W.R.}
}
