Entomologists Flashcards
Frederick W.L. Sladen
- difference between Pocket-makers and Pollen-storers
-Nasonovs Glands, Sladen suggested that it was for the production of pheromone that leads foraging workers back to hive
Auguste Forel
pioneering research on the social behaviour and
organization of ants
François Huber
behaviour of honeybees, particularly his studies on their communication and the function of the queen and workers
W.M Wheeler
development of the concept of “eusociality”
described eusocial insects as “superorganim”
Charles
Henry Turner
sensory perception and learning abilities of ants, and bees
colour vision in honeybees
Owain Westmacott Richards
more than 180 pages and six books
specialized in taxonomy and ecology
“the social wasps of the americas”
Jan Dzierzon
discovery of parthenogenesis in honeybees
- demonstrating that queens can reproduce without fertilization
-discovery of drone bee function
jean pierre huber
slave making ants
and social hierarchy and division of labour within the ants
Jean Pérez
specialized in bees,
over 100 publications
Sakagami
proposed a classification system for understanding the levels of sociality in bees
Jan Swammerdam
- debunked the theory that insects didnt have internal anatomy
-proved that each phase of the different phase of insects life (egg, larvae, pupa, and adult) are different forms of the same animal - proved that insects arose from eggs
Jean-Henri
Fabre
took a behavuoir approach rather that disecting and collecting
- catepillar in continuous loop experiment
Émile Roubaud
-solitary wasp behaviour
-maternal manipulation hypothesis– early eusocial colonies may have formed when mothers had help from daughters to care for broods
P-A Latreille
-created taxonomic groups still used today
-introduced the concept of “type species”
