Costa, J.T. 2006. The other insect societies. Cambridge, Masss.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

     Costa, J.T. and T.D. Fitzgerald. 2005. Social Terminology revisited: Where are we ten years later? Annales Zoologici Fennici 42: 559-564.

    Costa, J.T., T.D. Fitzgerald, A. Pescador-Rubio, J. Mays, and D. Janzen. 2004. Social behavior of larvae of the Neotropical processionary weevil Phelypera distigma (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Hyperinae). Ethology 110: 515-530.

     Costa, J.T. 2003. Teaching Darwin with Darwin. BioScience  53: 1030-1031.

    Costa, J.T. and K.G. Ross. 2003. Fitness effects of group merging in a social insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B.  270: 1697-1702.

     Costa, J.T., D.A. Gotzek, and D.H. Janzen. 2003. Late-instar shift in foraging strategy and trail pheromone use by caterpillars of the Neotropical moth Arsenura armida (Cramer) (Saturniidae: Arsenurinae). Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society  53: 220-229.

     Flowers, R.W. and J.T. Costa. 2003. Larval communication and group foraging dynamics in the red-headed pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei (Fitch) (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Diprionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America  96: 336-343.

     Costa, J.T. 2002. Scale models? What insect societies teach us about ourselves. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146: 170-180.

     Costa, J. T., T. D. Fitzgerald, and D. H. Janzen.2001. Trail-following behavior and natural history of the social caterpillar of Arsenura armida in Costa Rica (Lepdioptera: Saturniidae: Arsenurinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 12: 17-23.

      Costa, J.T. and R.W. Louque. 2001. Group foraging and trail following behavior of the red-headed pine sawfly Neodiprion lecontei (Fitch) (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Diprionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 480-489.

      Ruf, C., J.T. Costa, and K. Fiedler. 2001. Trail-based communication in social caterpillars of Eriogaster lanestris (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 14: 231-245.

      Fitzgerald, T. D. and J. T. Costa. 1999. Collective behavior in social caterpillars. pp. 379-400 In: Information Processing in Social Insects. C. Detrain, J. L. Denoubourg, and J. M. Pasteels, eds. Basel: Birkhauser-Verlag.

      Costa, J.T. 1998. Social behavior and its effects on colony and microgeographic genetic structure in phytophagous insect populations. pp. 205-238 In: Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations. S. Mopper and S. Strauss, eds. New York: Chapman & Hall.

      Costa, J.T. 1997. Caterpillars as social insects. American Scientist 85: 150-159.

      Costa, J.T. and N.E. Pierce. 1997. Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: Ecological context and communication in larval societies. pp. 407-442 In: The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids.J.C. Choe and B.J. Crespi, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

      Costa, J.T. and T.D. Fitzgerald. 1996. Developments in social terminology: semantic battles in a conceptual war. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 285-289.

     

     


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