Spradbery, J. Philip, Wasps: An Account of the Biology and Natural
History of Solitary and Social Wasps with Particular Reference to
Those of the British Isles, London, Sidgewick and Jackson, 1973.
Evans, Howard Ensign, Wasp Farm, Cambridge, Harvard University Press,
1963
for the discussion on tool using and spider floating wasps
Fox, Harold Munro, Personality of Animals, Penguin, 1947
for discussion of Clever Hans
Schaffer, George D, The Ways of a Mud Dauber, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1949.
about mud wasps who among other things found their human friend in various distant locations to beg food from him
von Frische, The Dancelanguage and Orientation of Bees, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968
Rau, Phil, The Jungle Bees and Wasps of Barro Colorado Island: with notes on other insects, 1933: published by the author in Kirkwood MO
1933
see the chapter entitled
The Mind as a Forerunner of Instinct...
The philosophy presented in this chapter is commensurate with the thought that if a behavoir evolved for reason x, by becomes adaptive for reason y, then animal consciously makes the switch rather than "fooling" itself about the motivation.
Examples of such motive switches would be:
Nasinov's gland in bees being a sex-attractor scent releaser in female solitary bees, but becomes an aid for non-reproductive social honey bee workers in recruiting nestmates to food.
Trophic eggs, laid by ants and bees which lack chromosomes and serve as food for nestamtes, the queen or the larvae.
Behavoir associated with defending an egg from a competing reproductive in the hive, behavior tantimount to ringing the dinner gong for the queen by a worker laying a trophic egg.
Vying to cuckoo the queens brood cell in a carpenter bee, becoming a dance to warm the queen so she can slowly and meticulously build a partition to seal her brood cell on a chilly night.
The same behavoir as above in a late season cell, in the heat of the day, used to sort the sawdust chips used as building material, so the partition will be more porous than an early season cell, to enhance development time, to synchronize emergence of early season and late season brood.
Courtship in navinax, a predacious, outcrossing hermaphrodyte sea slug. from amour to bon appetite, based on how hungry the beast is.
Hamilton, W. D. 1971: Altruism and Related Phenomena, Mainly in Social Insects
Ann Rev. Ecol. Syst. 193-232
discussion of trophic egg dinner gong calls in stingless bees and much much more (p 221).
Ley, Willy, Salamanders and Other Wonders, Viking, New York, 1955
you me and the animal world, martin john wells
Mifflin; boston
you me and the animal world , martin john wells ,faber and faber, london, houghton Miffflin boston,
