...This chapter provides an overview of the current understanding of the form of macroecological patterns in insect body size, with particular emphasis on global patterns, patterns through time, and patterns through space. There is evidence for a rich spatial and temporal structuring and variation...

... psychologists, both promoters and detractors of Darwinism, investigated the relative roles of instinct and intelligence in eating. Taking insects as a model of instinctive behavior, French entomologists, who were heavily influenced by gender stereotypes, reported the triumph, in female insects, of maternal over...

... of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second...

..., and theory on the social insects that continue to shape modern biology. Allen Danielle altruism ants Daston Lorraine myrmecology Wheeler on natural history amateurs versus professional social insects as evolutionary dead end Wheeler William Morton division of labor in ant social organization...

... the tenuous humanity, especially of children, but, ultimately, of all sub­ject to sovereignty, the unity of which depends upon the reduction of subjects to partial or fragmentary states, whether represented by figures of subhumanity, like enslavement, or figures of inhumanity, like swarms of insects. Although...

...Darwin compared cross- and self-pollination in two Ophrys species but never saw insects visiting the flowers or dispersing their pollinaria (see Chapter 1). Early in the 20^th century, observers noted that these flowers mimicked the bodies of female insects and were...

...Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the Bureau of Entomology grew in strength to defend the nation’s borders against unwanted invasions. American entomologists criminalized insect and human migrants from Mexico and Japan during this era of biological border patrols. With the threat...

... of these plants and habitats are threatened, reduced to small isolated populations and remnants. Invasive, nonnative plants now occupy large areas of native habitat and threaten areas rich in butterflies and moths. Outbreaks of, and efforts to suppress, pest insects, both native and introduced, could affect many...