Hunt, J. H., and C. A. Nalepa, eds. 1994. Nourishment
and Evolution in Insect Societies. Westview Press,
Boulder, CO, and Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi, India. xii+449pp.
Hunt, J. H., ed. 1980. Selected Readings in
Sociobiology. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY,
xv + 447 pp.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS
& REVIEWS
2010's
O'Donnell,
S. and J. H. Hunt. 2013. Group
hunting by workers of two Neotropical swarm-founding paper
wasps, Parachartergus
apicalis and Agelaia sp. Insectes Sociaux early
online PDF
Hunt,
J. H. 2012.
A conceptual model for the origin of worker behaviour and
adaptation of eusociality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:
1-19. PDF
Hunt, J.
H. 2012.
Recovery of the Mary Talbot ant collection. Appendix 2 in:
Talbot, M. 2012. The natural history of the ants of
Michigan's E. S. George Reserve: A 26 year study. Miscellaneous Publications,
Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 202:
216.
Hunt, J.
H., N. S. Mutti, H. Havukainen, M. T. Henshaw, and G. V.
Amdam. 2011.
Development of an RNA interference tool, characterization
of its target, and an ecological test of caste
differentiation in the eusocial wasp Polistes. PLoS ONE: 6(11):
e26641. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0026641#top
Hunt, J. H., F. Wolschin, M. T. Henshaw,
T. C. Newman, A. L. Toth, and G. V. Amdam. 2010. Differential
gene expression and protein abundance evince
ontogenetic bias toward castes in a primitively
eusocial wasp. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10674. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010674
Toth, A.
L., K. B. J. Bilof, M. T. Henshaw, J. H. Hunt, and G. E.
Robinson. 2009. Lipid
stores, ovary development, and brain gene expression in Polistes females. Insectes
Sociaux 56: 77-84. PDF
Carpenter,
J. M., J. H. Hunt, and J. E. Strassmann. 2009. Mischocyttarus mexicanus
cubicola: Major extension of its range to Texas
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 115: 95–96.
PDF
Hunt, J. H. 2009.
Interspecific adoption of orphaned nests by Polistes paper wasps
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:
136-139. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 2008. All for one
and one for all. (A review of The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and
Strangeness of Insect Societies by B. Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson, W. W.
Norton & Co., New York)(Science Citation Index has this
listed by the book's title
Hines, H. M., J. H. Hunt, T. K. O'Connor, J. J. Gillespie, and S. A. Cameron. 2007. Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 3295-3299. PDF
Hunt, J. H., B. J. Kensinger, J. A. Kossuth,
M. T. Henshaw, K. Norberg, F. Wolschin, and G. V. Amdam. 2007.
A diapause pathway underlies the gyne phenotype
in Polistes wasps, revealing an
evolutionary route to caste-containing insect societies.
Proceedings of the National
Toth,
A. L., K. Varala, T. C. Newman, F. E. Miguez, S.
Hutchison, D. Willoughby, J. F. Simons, M. Egholm, J. H.
Hunt, M. E. Hudson, and G. E. Robinson. 2007.
Wasp gene expression supports an evolutionary
link between maternal behavior and eusociality. Science 318: 441-444.
Hunt, J.
H. 2006.
Evolution of castes in Polistes. Annales
Zoologici Fennici 43: 407-422. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and G. V. Amdam. 2005. Bivoltinism as an
antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes. Science 308: 264-267. PDF
Seal, J. N., and J. H. Hunt. 2004. Food supplementation affects colony-level life history traits in the annual social wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 51: 239-242. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and J. M.
Carpenter. 2004.
Intra-specific
nest form variation in some Neotropical swarm-founding wasps
of the genus Parachartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae,
Epiponini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological
Society 77: 448-456. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 2003. Cryptic herbivores of the rainforest canopy. Science 300: 916-917. PDF
Karsai, I., and J. H. Hunt. 2002. Food quantity affects traits of offspring in the paper wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Environmental Entomology 31: 99-106. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and M. A. Dove. 2002. Nourishment affects colony demographics in the paper wasp Polistes metricus. Ecological Entomology 27: 467-474. PDF
Hunt, J. H., S. O'Donnell, N. Chernoff, and C. Brownie. 2001. Observations on two Neotropical swarm-founding wasps, Agelaia yepocapa and A. panamaensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 555-562. PDF
Hunt, J. H., R. D. Cave, and
G. R. Borjas. 2001.
First records from Honduras of a yellowjacket wasp, Vespula
squamosa (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae). Journal
of the Kansas Entomological Society 74:
118-119. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 2000. European hornet.
Pp. 26-29 in R. E. Gold and S. C. Jones , eds., Handbook
of Household and Structural Insect Pests .
Entomological Society of America.
1990's
Hunt, J. H. 1999.
Trait mapping and salience in the evolution of eusocial
vespid wasps. Evolution 53: 225-237. PDF
Hunt, J. H., R. J.
Brodie, T. P. Carithers, P. Z. Goldstein, and D. H. Janzen.
1999. Dry season
migration by Costa Rican lowland paper wasps to high
elevation cold dormancy sites. Biotropica 31:
192-196. PDF
Hunt, J. H., A. M. Rossi, N. J. Holmberg, S. R. Smith, and W. R. Sherman. 1998. Nutrients in social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) honey. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 91: 466-472. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and
D. P. Sanders. 1998.
Distributional notes on some social wasps (Hymenoptera: Polistes,
Vespa, Dolichovespula, Vespula ) in Missouri. Journal
of the Kansas Entomological Society 71: 183-185. PDF
O'Donnell, S., J.
H. Hunt, and R. L. Jeanne. 1997.
Gaster-flagging during colony defense in Neotropical
swarm-founding wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini). Journal
of the Kansas Entomological Society 70: 175-180. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1997. Wasps: they're not
just for sociobiologists anymore (a review of The Pollen
Wasps: Ecology and Behavior of the Masarinae by S. K.
Guess [Harvard University Press] and Natural History and
Evolution of Paper-Wasps edited by S. Turillazzi and
M. J. West-Eberhard [Oxford University Press]). Ecology
78: 1290-1292. PDF
Hunt, J. H., D. K.
Schmidt, S. S. Mulkey, and M. A. Williams. 1996. Caste dimorphism
in the wasp Epipona guerini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae;
Polistinae, Epiponini): further evidence for larval
determination. Journal of the Kansas Entomological
Society Supplement 69: 362-369. PDF
Hunt, J. H., R. L. Jeanne, and M. G. Keeping. 1995. Observations on Apoica pallens, a nocturnal Neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae, Epiponini). Insectes Sociaux 42: 223-236. PDF
Jeanne, R. L., J.
H. Hunt, and M. G. Keeping. 1995. Foraging in social wasps: Agelaia
lacks recruitment to food. Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society 68: 279-289. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and
C. A. Nalepa. 1994.
Nourishment, evolution and insect sociality. Pp. 1-19 in
J. H. Hunt and C. A. Nalepa, eds., Nourishment and
Evolution in Insect Societies. Westview Press,
Boulder, CO, and Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi, India. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1994. Nourishment and social evolution in wasps sensu lato. Pp. 221-254 in J. H. Hunt and C. A. Nalepa, eds., Nourishment and Evolution in Insect Societies. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, and Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1993. Survivorship, fecundity and recruitment in a mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron assimile (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86: 51-59. PDF
Greenstone, M. H.,
and J. H. Hunt. 1993.
Determination of prey antigen half-life in Polistes
metricus using a monoclonal antibody-based immunodot
assay. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 68:
1-7. PDF
Jeanne, R. L., and J. H. Hunt. 1992. Observations on the social wasp Ropalidia montana from peninsular India. Journal of Biosciences 17: 1-14. PDF
Jeanne, R. L., and
J. H. Hunt. 1992.
Beetles (Col., Scarabaeidae) in a social wasp nest (Hym.,
Vespidae) in India. Entomologists Monthly Magazine
128: 139-141. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1992. Review of W. Engels, ed., Social Insects - An Evolutionary Approach to Caste and Reproduction. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85: 247-248. PDF
Hunt, J. H., P. A.
Brown, K. M. Sago, and J. A. Kerker. 1991. Vespid wasps eat
pollen (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society 64: 127-130. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1991. Nourishment and the evolution of the social Vespidae. Pp. 426-450 in K. G. Ross and R. W. Matthews, eds., The Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. PDF
1980's
Ferguson, C. S., and J. H. Hunt. 1989. Near nest behavior of a solitary mud daubing wasp, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury). Journal of Insect Behavior 2: 315-323. PDF
Landes, D. A., and J. H. Hunt. 1988. Occurrence of Chalybion zimmermanni zimmermanni Dahlbom in a mixed sleeping aggregation with Chalybion californicum (Saussure) in Missouri (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61: 230-231. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1988. Lobe erection behavior and its possible social role in larvae of Mischocyttarus paper wasps. Journal of Insect Behavior 1: 379-386. PDF
Rossi, A. M., and J. H. Hunt. 1988. Honey supplementation and its developmental consequences: evidence for food limitation in a paper wasp, Polistes metricus. Ecological Entomology 13: 437- 442. PDF
Landes, D. A., M. S. Obin, A. B. Cady, and J. H. Hunt. 1987. Seasonal and latitudinal variation in spider prey of the mud dauber Chalybion californicum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). The Journal of Arachnology 15: 249-256. PDF
Grogan, D. E., and J. H. Hunt. 1986. Midgut endopeptidase activities of the hornet Vespa crabro germana Christ (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 33: 486-489. PDF
Grogan, D. E., and J. H. Hunt. 1984. Chymotrypsin-like activity in the honeybee midgut: patterns in a three year study. Journal of Apicultural Research 23: 61-63. PDF
Mitchell, P. S., and J. H. Hunt. 1984. Nutrient and energy assays of larval provisions and feces in the black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 57: 700-704. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1984. Adult nourishment
during larval provisioning in a primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes
metricus Say. Insectes Sociaux 31:
452-460. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1983. Zeledonia
coronata (Zeledonia, Wrenthrush). Pp. 616-618 in
D. H. Janzen, ed., Costa Rican Natural History .
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
IL. Hunt, J. H. 1991. Zeledonia coronata
(Zeledonia, Wrenthrush). Pp. 627-628 in D. H.
Janzen, ed., Historia Natural de Costa Rica .
Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad
Universitaria, Costa Rica.
Grogan, D. E., and
J. H. Hunt. 1980.
Age correlated changes in midgut protease activity of the
honeybee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Experientia
36: 1347-1348. PDF
Grogan, D. E. and J. H. Hunt. 1979. Pollen proteases: their potential role in insect digestion. Insect Biochemistry 9: 309-313. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and
K. C. Noonan. 1979.
Larval feeding by male Polistes fuscatus and P.
metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux
26: 247-251. PDF
Hunt, J. H., and G. J. Gamboa. 1978. Joint nest use by two paper wasp species. Insectes Sociaux 25: 373-374. PDF
Grogan, D. E., and
J. H. Hunt. 1977.
Digestive proteases of two species of wasps of the genus Vespula.
Insect Biochemistry 7: 191-196. PDF
(see also: Kayes, B. M. 1978.
Digestive proteases in four species of Polistes
wasps. Canadian Journal of Zoology 56: 1454-1459.
PDF)
Hunt, J. H. 1977. Ants. Pp. 195-198 in N. J. W. Thrower and D. E. Bradbury, eds., Chile - California Mediterranean Scrub Atlas. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA.
Solbrig, O. T., M. L. Cody, E. R. Fuentes, W. Glanz, J. H. Hunt, and A. R. Moldenke. 1977. The origin of the biota. Pp. 13-26 in H. A. Mooney, ed., Convergent Evolution in Chile and California. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA.
Cody, M. L., E. Fuentes, W. E. Glanz, J. H. Hunt, and A. R. Moldenke. 1977. Convergent evolution in the consumer organisms of Mediterranean Chile and California. Pp. 144-192 in H. A. Mooney, ed., Convergent Evolution in Chile and California. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA.
Solbrig, O. T., W. F. Blair, F. A. Enders, A. C. Hulse, J. H. Hunt, M. A. Mares, J. Neff, D. Otte, B. B. Simpson, and C. S. Tomoff. 1977. The biota: the dependent variable. Pp. 50-66 in G. H. Orians and O. T. Solbrig, eds., Convergent Evolution in Warm Deserts. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA. PDF
Mares, M. A., W. F. Blair, F. A. Enders, D. Greegor, A. C. Hulse, J. H. Hunt, D. Otte, R. D. Sage, and C. S. Tomoff. 1977. The strategies and community patterns of desert animals. Pp. 107-163 in G. H. Orians and O. T. Solbrig, eds., Convergent Evolution in Warm Deserts. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA.
Hunt, J. H., and R. R. Snelling. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10: 20-23. PDF
Snelling, R. R., and J. H. Hunt. 1975. The ants of Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomologia 9: 63-129. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1974. Temporal activity patterns in two competing ant species. Psyche 81: 237-242. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1971. A field study of
the Wrenthrush, Zeledonia coronata. The Auk 88:
1-20. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1964. Nesting record for
the Canada Goose in Wake County, North Carolina. The
Chat 28: 133-135. PDF