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

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 spec...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1996
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.) :; 28 halftones, 43 linecuts, 25 color illustrations
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Table of 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