Encyclopedia of Social Insects

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of...

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Other Authors: Starr, Christopher K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2020, 2020
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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