Encyclopedia of Social Insects

ISBN-13: 9783030281014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1049 str.

Christopher Starr

Spis treści

See attached - Encyclopedia contents (list of entries, 184 so far)

NB. For present purposes the Editor (Prof. Starr) has separated the entries into two groups: conceptual and taxon-based.  This is for convenience at this stage, as he foresee combining them alphabetically, as in any encyclopedia.  In this list, an asterisk indicates a longer entry, approximately 1000-3000 words, exclusive of illustrations, within-entry headings and a brief bibliography.  Those without asterisks he foresees as shorter entries, usually 500-1000 words.  These latter will mostly be elaborations on topics within the longer entries.

O autorze

Christopher K. Starr was born in Canada in 1949, but has spent the bulk of his adult life in the tropics of Asia and the New World. He was introduced to insects one day in 1954 by his grandmother, who happened to ask "Christopher, would thee like to go bug collecting?" What they found that day so amazed him that it grew into a lifetime in entomology. As an undergraduate in 1972, he reached the conviction that social insects are the most interesting feature of the known universe, a view from which he has not wavered. His main area of expertise is social wasps, but has been his pleasure alongside these to contribute original findings to our knowledge of social bees, ants, termites and solitary wasps.  After living and working in various countries, he moved to Trinidad & Tobago in 1991, where he retired as Professor of Entomology at the University of the West Indies in 2014.  As a friend of biodiversity and an adversary of the cold, he has every intention of remaining in this neotropical continental island.