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.
The other insect societies by James T. Costa. ISBN 9780674021631. Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.