chapter Introduction -- part Part I: Foraging Decisions, Patterns, and Strategies -- chapter 1 Measuring the Adaptiveness of Social Insect Foraging Strategies: An Empirical Approach* -- chapter 2 Social Cues and Adaptive Foraging Strategies in Ants -- chapter 3 Individual and Social Foraging in Social Wasps -- chapter 4 Season-Dependent Foraging Patterns: Case Study of Neotropical Forest-Dwelling Ant (Pachycondyla striata; Ponerinae) -- chapter 5 Foraging Range and the Spatial Distribution of Worker Bumble Bees -- part Part II: Information Use and Information Transfer -- chapter 6 How to Tell Your Mates: Costs and Benefits of Different Recruitment Mechanisms -- chapter 7 Social Information Use in Foraging Insects -- chapter 8 Local Enhancement, Local Inhibition, Eavesdropping, and the Parasitism of Social Insect Communication -- chapter 9 The Role of Scents in Honey Bee Foraging and Recruitment -- chapter 10 Trophallaxis: A Mechanism of Information Transfer -- chapter 11 Mobilizing the Foraging Force: Mechanical Signals in Stingless Bee Recruitment -- chapter 12 Chemical Communication during Food Exploitation in Stingless Bees -- chapter 13 The Use of Scent Marks by Foraging Bumble Bees -- chapter 14 Information Transfer and the Organization of Foraging in Grass- and Leaf-Cutting Ants* -- part Part III: Modeling Social Insect Foraging -- chapter 15 An Evolutionary Simulation of the Origin of Pheromone Communication -- chapter 16 Mathematical and Neural Network Models of Medium-Range Navigation during Social Insect Foraging -- chapter Social Insects and the Exploitation of Food Sources: Concluding Thoughts.