| Description |
xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Urban environments -- Practical conservation -- 9.Species Case Histories -- Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini) -- The great yellow bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus) -- Wallace's bee (Chalicodoma pluto) -- Neopasiphae simplicior in Western Australia -- The antennal-waving wasp (Tachysphex pechumani) -- The dinosaur ant (Nothomyrmecia macrops) -- The red-barbed ant (Formica rufibarbis) in Britain -- 10.Assessing Conservation Progress and Priorities for the Future -- Introduction: The basic need -- Monitoring -- The milieux of concern |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing Hymenoptera and their Conservation -- Perspective -- Classification and diversity -- Importance for conservation -- Social life and conservation -- 2.Alien Hymenoptera in Classical Biological Control -- Introducing a dilemma -- Conservation concerns -- 3.The Junction of Biological Control and Conservation: Conservation Biological Control and Cultural Control -- 4.Introduced Bees: Threats or Benefits? -- 5.Social Wasps and Ants as Aliens -- Social wasps -- Ants -- Current perspective -- 6.Pollinator Declines -- Introducing the concerns -- Threats to pollinators -- Pathogens and parasites -- Pesticides -- Pollution -- 7.Levels of Conservation Concern and the Shortcomings of Current Practice -- Foci for conservation -- Species focus -- Biotope and habitat focus -- 8.Habitat Parameters and Manipulation -- Defining and assessing habitats in the landscape -- Habitat manipulations for conservation -- Natural and agricultural environments -- |
| Summary |
Hymenoptera, the bees, wasps and ants have massive ecological importance as pollinators and as predators or parasitoids of other insects.The first such account for the whole of the Hymenoptera discusses a range of themes to introduce the insects and their conservation roles and needs |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-213) and index |
| Subject |
Endangered species.
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Hymenoptera -- Conservation.
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Hymenoptera.
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| LC no. |
2012008091 |
| ISBN |
9780470671801 (cloth) |
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