JAMES H. HUNT
Publications
Johns, F. L., and J. H. Hunt.
1963. Solitary Sandpipers in
the
Great Smokies. The Chat 27: 78.
Hunt, J. H. 1964. Nesting record for the Canada Goose in Wake County, North Carolina. The Chat 28: 133-135.
Hunt, J. H. (compiler). 1965. Census number 7, Upland Deciduous Forest in "Winter Bird-Population Study". Audubon Field Notes 19: 422.
1970's:
Hunt, J. H. 1971. A field study of the Wrenthrush, Zeledonia coronata. The Auk 88: 1-20. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1974. Temporal activity patterns in two competing ant species. Psyche 81: 237-242. PDF
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. 1975. On the evolution of eusocial wasps and ants. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 56(2): 54. (abstract)
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. PDF
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. 1977. Digestive protease presence and abundance in adult social Vespidae. Pp. 75-76 in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Center for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, Wageningen, The Netherlands. (abstract)
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., and G. J. Gamboa. 1978. Joint nest use by two paper wasp species. Insectes Sociaux 25: 373-374. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 1978. Adult nourishment during larval provisioning in a paper wasp (Polistes metricus). American Zoologist 18(3): 583. (abstract)
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
1980's:
Hunt, J. H., ed. 1980. Selected Readings in Sociobiology. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, xv + 447 pp.
Hunt, J. H. 1980. "How do I love thee? Let me count thy genes." (a review of The Whisperings Within by David Barash; Harper and Row Publishers). St. Louis Globe-Democrat 129, no.59: 4F.
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
Hunt, J. H. 1980. Time budgets of paper wasps (Polistes spp.) and two species of mud dauber wasp. P. 431 in: XVI International Congress of Entomology. Abstracts. Kyoto, Japan. (abstract)
Hunt, J. H. 1982. Trophallaxis and the evolution of eusocial Hymenoptera. Pp. 201-205 in M. D. Breed, C. D. Michener, and H. E. Evans, eds., The Biology of Social Insects. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. PDF
Hunt, J. H., I. Baker, and H. G. Baker. 1982. Similarity of amino acids in nectar and larval saliva: the nutritional basis for trophallaxis in social wasps. Evolution 36: 1318-1322. 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.
Hunt, J. H. 1983. Foraging and
morphology in ants: The role of
vertebrate predators as agents of natural selection. Pp. 83-104
in P. Jaisson, ed., Social Insects in the Tropics,
vol. 2. Presses de l'Université Paris XIII, Paris,
France. 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. 1986. Nourishment of adult social wasps during a tropical dry season. P. 8 in: American Philosophical Society Grantee Reports . (abstract)
Landes, D. A., J. H. Hunt, and A. B. Cady. 1986. Seasonal and latitudinal variation in spider prey of the blue mud dauber Chalybion californicum. American Arachnology 34: 5. (abstract)
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
Hunt, J. H. 1987. Variable trophallaxis in larvae of the paper wasp genus Mischocyttarus. P. 309 in J. Eder and H. Rembold, eds., Chemistry and Biology of Social Insects. Verlag J. Peperny, Munich, Germany. (abstract)
Hunt, J. H., and M. S. Arduser. 1987. Common Missouri wasps and bees: a painless look at some of the state's most interesting insects. Missouri Conservationist 48(8): 13-25. For an on-line version, click here .
Hunt, J. H., M. S. Arduser, J. E. Averett, and B. L. Stinchcomb. 1987. Natural History Collections in Missouri: Results of a Survey Funded by the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 109 pp.
Hunt, J. H., R. L. Jeanne, I. Baker, and D. E. Grogan. 1987. Nutrient dynamics of a swarm-founding social wasp species, Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Ethology 75: 291-305. 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
Landes, D. A., and J. H. Hunt. 1988. 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
Hunt, J. H., and M. S. Arduser. 1988. Yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps. University of Missouri-St. Louis Continuing Education/Extension Publication EP-14. 5 pp.
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
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
1990's:
Hunt, J. H. 1990. Nourishment and caste in social wasps. Pp. 651-652 in B. K. Veeresh, B. Mallik and C. A. Viraktamath, eds., Social Insects and the Environment. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India. (abstract)
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
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. 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
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. 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
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., 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.
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.
Hunt, J. H. 1994. Life history evolution in social wasps: a population demographic perspective. P.185 in A. Lenoir, G. Arnold and M. Lepage, eds., Les Insectes Sociaux. Publications Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France. (abstract)
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
Landes, D. A., J. H. Hunt, and A. B. Cady. 1995. Spider survey from a southwestern Illinois sand prairie. American Arachnology 52: 5. (abstract)
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. 1996. Character state evolution in the origin of social wasps. P. 121 in Fifth International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology, Abstracts. Budapest, Hungary. (abstract)
Hunt, J. H. 1996. Pattern and process in the demography of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). P. 397 in XX International Congress of Entomology, Proceedings. Florence, Italy. (abstract)
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
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., 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
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
2000's:
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.
Hunt, J. H. 2000. Development and the evolution of castes in social wasps. P. 552 in D. L. Gazzoni, ed., Abstract Book I XXI-International Congress of Entomology, Brazil, August 20-26, 2000. (abstract)
Karsai, I., and J. H. Hunt. 2000. Does eating more make you tough? The effect of nutrition on the development of social wasps. P.885 in D. L. Gazzoni, ed., Abstract Book II XXI-International Congress of Entomology, Brazil, August 20-26, 2000. (abstract)
Hunt, J. H. 2001. Human drama, ecology coexist. A review of Green Phoenix - Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica by William Allen; Oxford University Press. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 123 no. 115: F8.
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
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. 2002. Phylogenetics focuses key questions in the evolution of social Vespidae. P. 153 in XIV International Congress of IUSSI: The Golden Jubilee Proceedings, 27 July – 3 August 2002, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. (abstract)
Hunt, J. H. 2003. Cryptic herbivores of the rainforest canopy. Science 300: 916-917. PDF
Hunt, J. H., N. A. Buck, and D. E. Wheeler. 2003. Storage proteins in vespid wasps: characterization, developmental pattern, and occurrence in adults. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 785-794. 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., and G. V. Amdam. 2005.
Bivoltinism as an
antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes.
Science 308: 264-267. PDF
Hunt, J. H. 2005.
Academic Oz and The Insight.
Pp. 60-64 in: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Jahrbuch
2003-2004. H. Heenemann, Berlin.