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Michener, Charles Duncan was born on September 22, 1918 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Harold and Josephine (Rigden) Michener.
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In this extensive update of his definitive reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new facts, reclassifications, and revisions, the second edition of The Bees of the World provides the most comprehensive treatment of the 1,200 genera and subgenera of the Apiformes. Included are hundreds of updated citations to work published since the appearance of the first edition and a new set of plates of fossil bees. The book begins with extensive introductory sections that include bee evolution, classification of the various bee families, the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, nesting behavior, differences between solitary and social bees, and the anatomy of these amazing insects. Drawing on modern studies and evidence from the fossil record, Michener reveals what the ancestral bee―the protobee―might have looked like. He also cites the major literature on bee biology and describes the need for further research on the systematics and natural history of bees, including their importance as pollinators of crops and natural vegetation. The greater part of the work consists of an unprecedented treatment of bee systematics, with keys for identification to the subgenus level. For each genus and subgenus, Michener includes a brief natural history describing geographical range, number of species, and noteworthy information pertaining to nesting or floral biology. The book is beautifully illustrated with more than 500 drawings and photographs that depict behavior, detailed morphology, and ecology. Accented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.
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This book concerns the lives of those insects that live in colonies and whose activities center about the queen tended by her six-footed subjects. Included also are the various insects that par parasites and associates of our principal subjects, the bees, ants, wasps, and termites, as well as those that shed light on the original and evolution of the colonial habits of these insects.
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Michener, Charles Duncan was born on September 22, 1918 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Harold and Josephine (Rigden) Michener.
He received his Bachelor of Surgery in 1939 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology in 1941, from the University of California, Berkeley.
He was a leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being Much of his career was devoted to the systematics and natural history of bees. His first peer-reviewed publication was in 1934, at the age of 16. He remained in California until 1942, when he became an Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
In 1944 he published a classification system for bees that was soon adopted worldwide, and was in use until 1993 and 1995, when he co-authored new classifications.
From 1943 to 1946, Michener also served as a First Lieutenant and Captain in the United States Army Sanitary Corps, where he researched insect-borne diseases, and described the life cycle of the common chigger. Michener joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1948 as Associate Professor of Entomology.
He was chairman of the Entomology Department from 1949 to 1961, and then again from 1972 to 1975. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1955, and again in 1966.
He was awarded the Watkins Distinguished Professor of Entomology in 1958, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965, and became Director of the Snow Entomological Museum (now part of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, itself now a division within the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute) in 1974.
In February 2001, the Association of American Publishers gave its prestigious Railroad Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional Reference or Scholarly Work of 2000 to Michener"s opus, Michener"s work on social evolution in the Halictidae in the 1960s helped set the stage for the sociobiology revolution of the 1970s, with East. O. Wilson relying to a great degree on Michener"s concepts regarding the paths from solitary to highly social life. Along with his research activities and teaching, Michener was the editor of the academic journals Evolution from 1962 to 1964, the associate editor of the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics from 1970 to 1985, and the American editor of Insectes Sociaux from 1954 to 1955, again from 1970 to 1985. He served as President of the Kansas Entomological Society in 1950, President of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 1967, President of the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1968, and President of the American Society of Naturalists in 1978.
In 1977 he began his term as the President of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects and organized the 9th International Congress in 1982.
At the time of his retirement in 1989, Michener had already published over 340 articles and books, primarily on bee systematics and biology. In the same year, a fund was started with the University of Kansas Endowment Association for a scientific lecture series in Michener"s name.
He continued to publish through 2015.
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Served from First lieutenant to captain Sanitary Corps Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Entomological Society, Entomological Society American, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Entomological Society London, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member NAS, Linnean Society London (correspondent), Society for Study Evolution (president 1967), Society Systematic Zoologists (honorary, president 1969), American Society Naturalists (president 1978), International Union for Study Social Insects (president 1977-1982), Kansas Entomological Society (president 1950), Brazilian Academy Sciences (correspondent), Russian Entomological Society (honorary foreign member).
Married Mary Hastings, January 1, 1941. Children: David, Daniel, Barbara, Walter.