1. Stealthy invaders: the biology of Cardiocondyla tramp ants

   • J. Heinze
   • S. Cremer
   • A. Schrempf

   Review article Pages: 1 - 7

2. An ecological digest of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), a symbiont in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

   • J. D. Ellis
   • H. R. Hepburn

   Review article Pages: 8 - 19

3. Brood stimulation controls the phasic reproductive cycle of the parthenogenetic ant Cerapachys biroi

   • F. Ravary
   • B. Jahyny
   • P. Jaisson

   Research article Pages: 20 - 26

4. Preparation for disturbance-induced absconding of Cape honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.)

   • S. Spiewok
   • P. Neumann
   • H. R. Hepburn

   Research article Pages: 27 - 31

5. Defensiveness of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, is increased during colony rafting

   • K. L. Haight

   Research article Pages: 32 - 36

6. A modeling approach to swarming in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

   • N. H. Fefferman
   • P. T. Starks

   Research article Pages: 37 - 45

7. How does food distance influence foraging in the ant Lasius niger: the importance of home-range marking

   • C. Devigne
   • C. Detrain

   Research article Pages: 46 - 55

8. Foraging and building in subterranean termites: task switchers or reserve labourers?

   • T. A. Evans

   Research article Pages: 56 - 64

9. Measuring the trophic ecology of ants using stable isotopes

   • C. V. Tillberg
   • D. P. McCarthy
   • A. V. Suarez

   Research article Pages: 65 - 69

10. Population dynamics of a stingless bee community in the seasonal dry lowlands of Costa Rica

    • E. J. Slaa

    Research article Pages: 70 - 79

11. Intra-colonial variation of the sting extension response in the honey bee Apis mellifera

    • J.-C. Lenoir
    • D. Laloi
    • M.-H. Pham

    Research article Pages: 80 - 85

12. Head-plug defense in a gall aphid

    • U. Kurosu
    • J. Narukawa
    • S. Aoki

    Research article Pages: 86 - 91

13. Mating flight, metrosis, and semi-claustrality in the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex salinus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

    • K. E. Anderson
    • A. C. Keyel

    Research article Pages: 92 - 96

14. A simple and nondestructive method for estimation of worker population size in Myrmica ant nests

    • P. Skórka
    • M. Witek
    • M. Woyciechowski

    Research article Pages: 97 - 100

15. Sociality in a Malagasy allodapine bee, Macrogalea antanosy, and the impacts of the facultative social parasite, Macrogalea maizina

    • J. A. Smith
    • M. P. Schwarz

    Research article Pages: 101 - 107

16. An experimental study of bamboo ants in western Amazonia

    • D. W. Davidson
    • J. A. Arias
    • J. Mann

    Research article Pages: 108 - 114

17. Seasonal and task-related variation in free running activity rhythms in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

    • G. Bloch
    • Y. Shemesh
    • G. E. Robinson

    Research article Pages: 115 - 118

18. Diet and seed removal rates by the harvester ants Pogonomyrmex rastratus and Pogonomyrmex pronotalis in the central Monte desert, Argentina

    • G. I. Pirk
    • J. Lopez de Casenave

    Research article Pages: 119 - 125

19. Erratum

    • C. Liautard
    • L. Sundström

    Erratum Pages: 126 - 126