The Pollen Wasps : Ecology and Natural History of the Masarinae / Sarah K. Gess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gess, Sarah K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollen wasps.

Pollen wasps--Ecology.

Pollen wasps--Africa, Southern.

Pollen wasps--Ecology--Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 25 color plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations offer readers a rare close look at this little-known and endangered group of insects. Three appendixes list all known flower-visiting records, all hymenopteran visitors to the flowers included in the pollination chapter, and all published species names for Masarinae. Pollen wasps are of interest to a wide range of scholars (including entomologists, ethologists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists) because of their close associations with flowering plants and because of the ability of certain species to produce silk for nest building--an intriguing case of convergent evolution. For these readers, and for students of natural history and proponents of species preservation, The Pollen Wasps will prove an invaluable resource.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

CHAPTER 2. Biogeography

CHAPTER 3. Flower Associations

CHAPTER 4. Life History

CHAPTER 5. Nesting

CHAPTER 6. Associates

CHAPTER 7. Pollen Wasps as Potential Pollinators

CHAPTER 8. Pollen Wasps and Land Use

CHAPTER 9. Summary

APPENDIX 1. Records of flower visiting by masarine wasps

APPENDIX 2. Plants of the groups associated with masarine wasps in southern Africa together with their non-masarine solitary aculeate wasp and bee visitors

APPENDIX 3. Described species of masarine wasps

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28168-3

OCLC:

1013954477