Foreword / by Bert Hölldobler
Commentary / by Edward O. Wilson
Introduction: what's in a name?
The ecology of social evolution
Dermaptera: earwig mothers
Orthoptera: hopper herds and cricket families
Embiidina: the web spinners
Mantodea and Phasmatodea: mantids and walkingsticks
Blattodea: cockroaches that care
Psocoptera and Zoraptera: barklice and angel insects
Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea: samurai aphids
Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: treehopper herds
Hemiptera: Heteroptera 1, Terrestrial bugs
Hemiptera: Heteroptera 2, Aquatic bugs
Thysanoptera: communes and family fortresses
Coleoptera: beetle societies 1, Dung, rove, and carrion beetles and their allies
Coleoptera: beetle societies 2, Bark and ambrosia beetles and other weevils
Coleoptera: beetle societies 3, Leaf, fungus, carrion, darkling, and whirligig beetles and their allies
Lepidoptera: social caterpillars 1, Moths
Lepidoptera: social caterpillars 2, More moths, and social butterflies
Hymenoptera, Symphyta: sawfliy societies
Other social arthropods: arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans
Coda: sociality in an Appalachian spring.
