| 单词 | social insect |
| 例句 | The social insects are like this; they move, and live all their lives, in a mass; a beehive is a spherical animal. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The social insects, especially ants, have been sources of all kinds of parables, giving lessons in industry, interdependence, altruism, humility, frugality, patience. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Margonelli, like the researchers she encounters, attempts to free herself from the shackles of human perception and enter the social insect psyche. Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Second, as social insects, bees work together, sharing and storing food. Without honeybees, we may cease to be 2013-03-21T17:11:00Z Termites are the unloved freaks of the social insect world. Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z And then there are sloth bears, which mostly eat social insects. Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z For instance, social insects like ants and honeybees carry their dead away from the colony in a behavior called necrophoresis. Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies — and scientists have identified why 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z She said the behaviour of social insects like these bumblebees were "some of the most intricate on the planet". Bumblebees learn to solve puzzles by watching peers, study finds 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Bridges suspects that other social insects such as honeybees and leaf cutter ants would show a similar capacity for culture. Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Clonal raiders rely heavily on a sense of smell to cooperate as they seek out other ant nests to raid, and scientists have found them to be useful subjects for studies of social insects. Lazy worker ants sprout queenlike wings and sponge off other workers 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Cooperation isn’t exactly rare in the animal kingdom—animals from social insects to lions, wolves and spotted hyenas, and many primates cooperate; some, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, even do so with nonrelatives. Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world’s biggest social networks, long-running study finds 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Pheromones are especially common among social insects, but they are used by many species to attract the opposite sex, to sound alarms, to mark food trails, and to elicit other, more complex behaviors. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In attaining a state of bonded interdependence, wild dogs have become a bit like social insects — termites with fur. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z In 1982 I cautiously sat down next to the great man during a break at a small conference on social insects. E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z E. O. Wilson, a world leader in the study of social insects, has shown how colonies of ants that cooperated closely were more evolutionarily successful than those that experienced internal competition. It’s time to consign the “selfish gene” to the history books 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Many social insects exhibit surprising aging characteristics that cause their life spans to shift depending on their roles. How life span–shifting insects are reshaping aging research 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The activities of social insects such as bees, wasps, ants, and termites are good examples. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Everything was as the hypothesis predicted—and the paper kick-started aging research in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z But between late summer and fall, V. mandarinia workers may band together to conduct mass attacks on nests of other social insects, notably honeybees. Just How Dangerous Is the ‘Murder Hornet’? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z A group of entomologists at the University of California, Riverside, led by Ph.D. students Kaleigh Fisher and Mari West, examined this phenomenon in social insects such as bees, ants, wasps, and termites. Pheromones and social lives are becoming a liability for insects in changing climates 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “Imagine it being a city,” said Stephen Martin, an entomologist and expert in social insects at Britain’s University of Salford. A natural ‘wonder of the Earth,’ the size of Minnesota, was built by termites in Brazil 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But Martin proposed that, because these social insects “are very, very good at optimization,” the six-pointed system may be the most efficient. This ‘wonder of the Earth’ is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Scientists had previously found strong links between these pathways and life spans in flies and other solitary insects—but not in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Nobody loves termites, even though other social insects such as ants and bees are admired for their organisation, thrift and industry. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z “Some social insects might actually be susceptible to increasingly altered and unpredictable environments, while others may thrive,” said West in an interview. Pheromones and social lives are becoming a liability for insects in changing climates 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But Martin proposed that, because these social insects “are very, very good at optimization” the six-pointed system may be the most efficient. A natural ‘wonder of the Earth,’ the size of Minnesota, was built by termites in Brazil 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “Imagine it being a city,” said Stephen J. Martin, an entomologist and expert in social insects at Britain’s University of Salford. This ‘wonder of the Earth’ is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Even more intriguing is the fact that aging in social insects is plastic, changing with social context. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The problem with social insects was that while single termites seem to be individuals, they do not function as such. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Global change affects more than just social insects — it threatens many other social animals as well. Pheromones and social lives are becoming a liability for insects in changing climates 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z She became interested in how cooperation works, and in 2010 she published the big paper reexamining a well-accepted theory for the evolution of social insects with biological mathematician Martin Nowak and entomologist E. O. Wilson. How Termites Shape the Natural World 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “The only force that might explain this is culture,” says evolutionary biologist Jacobus Boomsma at the University of Copenhagen, who studies social insects and agrees there are “essentially two ways for animals to be social.” Babysitting Mammals Keep It in the Family 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Back in the 1990s, Keller realized social insects offered “an interesting way” to test the extrinsic mortality hypothesis, he says. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z By 1931, the concept snuck into popular culture when Aldous Huxley reportedly based the dictatorship in Brave New World on humans as social insects, with five castes. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The paradox in question is the altruistic behavior exhibited most famously by social insects. The Elusive Calculus of Insect Altruism 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z There’s a lot left to learn about why, when, and how social insects may try to rescue one another, she said. 'Paramedic' Ants Are the First to Rescue and Heal Their Wounded Comrades 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z While most social insects remove their dead from the nest, termite corpses are buried into the nest. Queen Ants and Other Insects Bury Their Dead—Here's Why 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Several papers in this month’s theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions delve deeper into the molecular control of aging in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z For scientists, the great danger of seeing social insects anthropomorphically is that it obscures their true insect-ness. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Claude Desplan, a New York University biologist and an author of one of the studies, said that, as far as he could tell, these ants are “the first mutant in any social insect.” Scientists create the first mutant ants 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “It's quite likely that there are other ant species, or other social insects, that tend to their wounded.” 'Paramedic' Ants Are the First to Rescue and Heal Their Wounded Comrades 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Hamilton’s rule explains why altruistic behavior evolved among ants and bees, which are famously social insects. Can Microbes Encourage Altruism? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Thomas Flatt, who studies the genetics of aging in Drosophila at the University of Fribourg, is one of the researchers who has been won over by the promise of social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “I hope that my study kind of makes the debate go away,” says Amro Zayed, an entomologist who studies social insects at York University in Toronto and is co-author of one of the new reports. Widely Used Pesticide Is a Buzzkill for Honeybees 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Francis Ratnieks of the laboratory of apiculture and social insects at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in the study, welcomed the research. Injured ants get rescued after sending chemical SOS, researchers find 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Scientists used to think the molecules in social insects’ regurgitated food were simply “byproducts,” says Ofer Feinerman, a biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who was not involved in the study. An ant’s kiss may hide a sneaky form of communication 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Hadany and her colleagues are in the process of testing their theory in the lab by evaluating how antibiotics affect the behavior of social insects. Can Microbes Encourage Altruism? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z And keeping colonies of social insects alive can be laborious. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Or, as Schmidt, sitting in his lab sipping his iced tea, put it, the sting pain of the social insect “delivered more than just an advertisement — it told the truth.” The Connoisseur of Pain 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Because of this, the researchers say that the gardens demonstrate the intelligence of social insects. Termites were farming 25 million years ago — long before humans 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z This gene-centric view of evolution also began to explain one of the oddities of life on Earth – the behaviour of social insects. The Selfish Gene turns 40 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The most mature colonies in Reinberg’s collection belong to a species called the “jumping ant,” a pugnacious social insect from southern India. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Bernadou and his myrmecologist colleagues at Regensburg are part of a small cadre of researchers who have turned to social insects—ants, bees, and termites—to help unravel the mysteries of aging. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Other social insects mount attacks, too, Prudic says. Japanese giant hornets assault the hives of their prey, Japanese honeybees. Do Animals Go to War? Fortress defense and life insurance are the two main reasons that cooperating could be beneficial in social insects. The Woman Who Stared at Wasps 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Burial and other funerary behaviors are common in social insects—such as ants, honeybees, and termites—that live in crowded colonies and are fastidious about maintaining a hygienic home. Mystery Lingers Over Ritual Behavior of New Human Ancestor 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The social insects solved the problem by establishing a tiny corps of undertakers: bees in late middle age and of a particular genotype that has yet to be decoded. Nature’s Waste Management Crews 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Many who study those species have yet to be convinced that social insects have something important to contribute. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Some are social insects, including feral honeybees and the familiar bumblebees, but most are not. Wild bees: Lone rangers : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The ancestors of social insects are parasitic wasps. The Woman Who Stared at Wasps 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z “Among social insects, the treatment of the dead is just an instinctive behavior,” says behavioral ecologist David Hughes of Pennsylvania State University. Mystery Lingers Over Ritual Behavior of New Human Ancestor 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z African mole rats, the mammalian equivalent of social insects, cannot risk venturing outdoors to avoid sullying their elaborate underground housing complexes, so they build dedicated lavatories instead. Nature’s Waste Management Crews 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z One reason is that many social insects live far longer than the more popular model organisms. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In the tropics, where social insects rule, the termites outweigh the ants hundredfold. Termites Are Guardians of the Soil 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Right around the time Strassmann was in college, however, biologists began to understand how social insects could fit into the framework of evolutionary theory. The Woman Who Stared at Wasps 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Some species of birds and social insects routinely help raise another’s brood. Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z A researcher inspired by social insects gets robots to coordinate on a massive scale. 365 days: Nature's 10 Few social insects are as homogenous as clonal ants, but in most, queens and workers have very similar genomes, because all colony members are offspring of one or several queens. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z That unfailing etiquette distinguishes termites from their more famous counterparts among social insects, the ants. Termites Are Guardians of the Soil 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z But that intense focus became one of the hallmarks of her pioneering research on social insects. The Woman Who Stared at Wasps 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This is rather in contrast to the way that the social insects are usually considered within economics, as being exemplars of the ordered and structured, possibly even planned, economy. Ants Search For Food In The Same Way That Markets Hunt Technologies 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Like other social insects— such as ants, honeybees and some wasps — termites live in highly structured "caste systems," with each creature programmed to perform a rigidly defined job. Termite Genome Reveals Details of "Caste System" 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z But it has barely started to be used in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Among social insects like honeybees, caste depends on age, with young bees working in the nursery and older bees assigned to foraging or hive defense. Basics: The Social Life of Spiders Thriving in a Social Web 2014-05-11T19:02:31Z Quanta Magazine spoke with Strassmann about the evolution of social insects, the secret lives of queen wasps, and what she’s learned about cooperation from a single-celled creature. The Woman Who Stared at Wasps 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z “How did social insects evolve from solitary ancestors?” said Sandra Rehan, a biologist at the University of New Hampshire who studies a different bee with similar behavioral flexibility. In Bees, A Hunt for the Roots of Social Behavior [Slide Show] 2014-05-09T15:00:00Z In doing so, the team is borrowing a concept from the world of social insects called "stigmergy". Termites inspire robot builders 2014-02-13T19:17:15Z Flatt has been working with Korb, Heinze, and other researchers in a €6.2 million project funded by the German Research Foundation to study the unusual relationship between fecundity and aging in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In contrast, social insects such as termites build in a decentralized, self-organized manner. [Perspective] Robots Acting Locally and Building Globally 2014-02-13T19:25:36.515Z “Bees are social insects that return to the same point and operate on a very predictable schedule… we’ll be able to recognize very quickly when their activity shows variation and identify the cause.” Wearable Tech Already Deployed In Australia... On Bees 2014-01-16T23:14:00Z The talks were really good, sharing a lot of the recent research that’s happened using social insects, and I thought I’d share my highlight of first day’s events here. Does Social Learning Need to be Social? Insights from Bumble Bees 2013-12-20T19:15:02.877Z Honey bees and monoculture: nothing to dance about Matina Donaldson-Matasci is a postdoctoral researcher studying social insect behavior at the University of Arizona. Honey bees and monoculture: nothing to dance about 2013-06-07T13:45:00.287Z “But they don’t think we will make major discoveries in social insects that are relevant to their work.” What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Much can be learned from the long evolutionary history of social insects and their success in cohabiting with diverse beneficial and harmful microbes. Ten Predictions for the Future of Your (Microbial) Health 2013-03-19T12:45:03.283Z Mammals that subsist on the social insects are few in number and restricted to the tropics and subtropics, but their taxonomic spread is remarkable. Can Endangered Animals Coexist with Big Ag? [Excerpt] 2013-02-22T19:15:00.507Z This might seem perplexing to some, but I’ve just spent two days listening to talks and meeting with people who all work on social insects. Does Social Learning Need to be Social? Insights from Bumble Bees 2013-12-20T19:15:02.877Z However, in a social insect like the honey bee, the ecologically relevant entity is the colony, not the individual. [Technical Comment] Comment on “A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees” 2012-09-20T18:25:31.420Z Despite the challenges, scientists are starting to link aging patterns in social insects to the underlying molecules. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Researchers already knew that many social insects change roles in their colony as they age. Old Termites Blow Themselves Up to Protect the Nest 2012-07-26T19:00:00Z Synalpheus shrimp are similar to the familiar social insects in many ways. Scientist at Work Blog: Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory 2012-07-20T19:21:28Z The females of some social insects have been known to live for many years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Polymorphism, the appearance of the same species in several different forms in ants and social insects, 125. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z But social insect queens buck the trend: Reproduction stretches their life span rather than snipping it. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z "This study reinforces how unique the collective behaviors of social insects are when compared to other animals." Fire Ants Assemble as a 'Super-Organism' 2011-04-26T16:38:00Z Importantly, as a group, they are more socially diverse than most social insects. Scientist at Work Blog: Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory 2012-07-20T19:21:28Z They stress that inclusive fitness ideas have helped yield insights into many biological phenomena, such as why social insects have skewed sex ratios. Researchers Challenge E.O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory 2011-03-23T19:00:04Z As well as benefitting the colony, the researchers believe that this ability to change jobs may also lead to longer life spans in social insects compared to their solitary cousins. Leaf-cutter ants' teeth wear out 2011-01-07T11:00:57Z In biology, they may help explain corrupt behaviors in social insects. Researcher Finds Power and Corruption May Be Good for Society 2010-12-17T15:44:00Z “Humans and social insects—ants, termites, bees, wasps—are the only animals who do this,” said Anna Dornhaus, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the . What Ants Tell Us About Labor 2010-12-13T17:06:00Z Additionally, unlike in most social insects, workers in some species appear to be fully capable of reproducing. Scientist at Work Blog: Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory 2012-07-20T19:21:28Z The researchers are just beginning to learn how gene activity modifies neurobiology in social insects. Unraveling Ant Genomes Yields High Hopes 2010-08-27T14:46:00Z The purposeful collective activity of ants and other social insects does, indeed, look intelligent on the surface. Artificial intelligence: Riders on a swarm 2010-08-12T11:39:00Z The heroic act by the terminally ill ants is the latest in a line of extraordinary behaviours discovered among social insects. 2010-02-15T12:19:00Z Computer scientists and engineers are very interested in how social insects solve organizational problems, and are using the information to design algorithms for artificial problem-solving systems. What Ants Tell Us About Labor 2010-12-13T17:06:00Z Because they share characteristics with both social insects and social vertebrates, Synalpheus shrimp may uniquely allow us to test and compare some of the alternative explanations for the evolution of complex societies. Scientist at Work Blog: Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory 2012-07-20T19:21:28Z They are social insects, living in communities regulated by definite laws, each member of the society bearing a well-defined and separate part in the work of the colony. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The classic examples of societies based on instinct are the social insects, the well-known bee and the celebrated ant. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The bee, like the other social insects, evinces a wide range of instincts which are intimately related to the economy of the hive; but these motives appear to be of an unchangeable character. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization The social insects especially show us highly developed results of the adjustment of adjacent interests and life acts into concatenations and concretions. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The latter is specially characteristic of other orders of organic existence such as the Articulata—being remarkably exemplified in the activities of the social insects such as the bee. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Castes: the various forms or kinds of matured individuals among social insects as workers, soldiers, queens, etc. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology This is probably due to the fact that bees are a later development, socially speaking, and are not as psychically mature as the other social insects. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals This law is general; "the insect is born orphaned both of mother and father, excepting the social insect, and again excepting the dung-beetle, which dies full of days." Fabre, Poet of Science As with the varieties of the stock, so with social insects, selection has been applied to the family, and not to the individual, for the sake of gaining a serviceable end. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition But in regard to social insects the implied criticism is open to question. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things While solitary insects do not live to raise their young, social insects have a longer term, they exhibit moral affections and educate their offspring. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science This process must have been repeated many times, until that prodigious amount of difference between the fertile and sterile females of the same species has been produced which we see in many social insects. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition |
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