(Listed here are both "real" publications and a few newsletter pieces that need not yet be forgotten)
Biology; History of Science; Ethnobiology, Folklore and Language; Translations
1976. Starr, C.K. Nest reutilization by Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) and possible limitation of multiple foundress associations by parasitoids. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 49:142-144. [PDF]
1978. Starr, C.K. Nest reutilization in North American Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): Two possible selective factors. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 51:394-397. [PDF]
1979. Starr, C.K. Origin and evolution of insect sociality: A review of modern theory. Pp. 35-79 in: H.R. Hermann (ed.), Social Insects. Vol. 1. New York: Academic Press. [PDF]
1981. Starr, C.K. Trail-sharing by two species of Polyrhachis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Philippine Entomologist 5:5-8. [PDF]
1983. Starr, C.K., E. Schoenig & M.J.P. Cañete. USC-ViSCA biological expedition to Palawan, May-June 1982: Entomological Record. Philippine Scientist 20:129-138. [PDF]
1984. Starr, C.K. Sperm competition, kinship and sociality in the aculeate Hymenoptera. Pp. 427-464 in: R.L. Smith (ed.), Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems. New York: Academic Press. [PDF]
1984. Matthews, R.W. & C.K. Starr. Microstigmus comes wasps have a method of nest construction unique among social insects. Biotropica 16:55-58. [PDF]
1985. Starr, C.K. A simple pain scale for field comparison of hymenopteran stings. Journal of Entomological Science 20:225-232. [PDF]
1985. Starr, C.K. Enabling mechanisms in the origin of sociality in the Hymenoptera: The sting's the thing. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78:836-840. [PDF]
1985. Starr, C.K. What if workers in social hymenoptera were males? Journal of Theoretical Biology 117:11-18. [PDF]
1986. Schmidt, J.O., Sô. Yamane, M. Matsuura & C.K. Starr. Hornet venoms: Lethal activity and defensive roles. Toxicon 24:950-954. [PDF]
1987. Starr, C.K., P.J. Schmidt & J.O. Schmidt. Nest-site preferences of the giant honey bee, Apis dorsata, in Borneo. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 63:37-42. [PDF]
1987. Starr, C.K. A colony of the hornet Vespa philippinensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 34:1-9. [PDF]
1987. Starr, C.K. Queen or worker: Which is the original honey bee? (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Sociobiology 13:287-293. [PDF]
1987. Starr, C.K. & S.F. Sakagami. An extraordinary concentration of stingless bee colonies in the Philippines, with notes on nest structure (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Trigona spp.). Insectes Sociaux 34:96-107. [PDF]
1988. Starr, C.K. The nesting association of the social wasps Mischocyttarus immarginatus and Polybia spp. in Costa Rica. Biotropica 20:171-173. [PDF]
1988. Starr, C.K. Sexual behavior in Dictyna volucripes (Araneae: Dictynidae). Journal of Arachnology 16:321-330. [PDF]
1989. Starr, C.K. In reply, is the sting the thing? Annals of the Entomological Society of America 82:6-8. [PDF]
1989. Starr, C.K. The ins and outs of a tropical social wasp nest. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91:26-28. [PDF]
1989. Starr, C.K. An illusion of assortative mating in Dysdercus poecilus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae). Oriental Insects 23:177-181. [PDF]
1989. Mooi, R., P.F. Cannell, V.A. Funk, P.M. Mabee, R.T. O'Grady & C.K. Starr. Historical perspectives, ecology, and tiger beetles: An alternative discussion. Systematic Zoology 38:191-195. [PDF]
1989. Starr, C.K. Bombus folsomi and the origin of Philippine bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Systematic Entomology 14:411-415. [PDF]
1990. Starr, C.K. & R.S. Jacobson. Nest structure in Philippine hornets (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Vespa spp.). Japanese Journal of Entomology 58:125-143. [PDF]
1990. Starr, C.K. & J.G. Geronimo. Habitat and foraging observations on an oriental bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 2:373-379. [PDF]
1990. Starr, C.K. Holding the fort: Colony defense in some primitively social wasps. Pp. 421-463 in: D.L. Evans & J.O. Schmidt (eds.), Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators. Stony Brook: SUNY Press. [PDF]
1991. Starr, C.K. The nest as the locus of social life. Pp. 520-539 in: In: K.G. Ross & R.W. Matthews (eds.), The Social Biology of Wasps. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. [PDF]
1991. Starr, C.K., R.F. Severson & S.J. Kays. Volatile chemicals from sweet potato and other Ipomoea: Effects on the behavior of Cylas formicarius. Pp. 235-246 in: R.K. Jansson & K.V. Raman (eds.), Sweet Potato Pest Management: A Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview. [PDF]
1991. Starr, C.K. [Social insects in Taiwan.] Taichung: National Museum of Natural Science 92 pp. (Chinese; publisher's translation of my English text)
1992. Starr, C.K. The social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Taiwan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung (3):93-138.
1992. Starr, C.K. The bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Taiwan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung (3):139-157.
1992. Starr, C.K. & H.Y. Wang. Pachyrhynchine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) of the islands fringing Taiwan. Journal of the Taiwan Museum 45:5-14.
1994. Starr, C.K. The role of biosystematics in integrated pest management. Pp. 311-316 in: D. Walmsley (ed.), Integrated Pest Management: New Strategies for the Caribbean Farmer. St Augustine, Trinidad: CTA/CARDI.
1994. Starr, C.K. Present status of biosystematics in the wider Caribbean: The basis for CariNET. Pp. 43-49 in: T. Jones & M.A. Cook (eds.), Proceedings of the Caribbean LOOP Planning Meeting, Santo Domingo 26-27 November 1993. London: CAB-International.
1996. Macalintal, E.A. & C.K. Starr. Comparative morphology of the stinger in the social wasp genus Ropalidia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington (17):108-115. [PDF]
1997. Starr, C.K., D.D. Wilson, R.F. Severson & S.J. Kays. Sexual dimorphism in the sweet-potato weevil Cylas formicarius (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Canadian Entomologist 129:61-69. [PDF]
1998. C.K. Starr. Field observations of Tropidacris collaris (Orthoptera: Romaleidae). Living World (Port of Spain) 1997-1998:46-47.
1999. Starr, C.K. Systematics and comparative biology of the honeybees. Proceedings of the First Caribbean Congress of Beekeeping, Tobago 1998 pp.72-92. [PDF]
1999. Mohammed, F. & C.K. Starr. Comparative foraging of the sympatric stingless bees Trigona nigra and Partamona nigrior (Apidae: Meliponini). Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society 10:195-202.
2000. Carpenter, J.M. & C.K. Starr. A new genus of hover wasps from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Stenogastrinae). American Museum Novitates (3291): 1-12. [PDF]
2002. Starr, C.K., S. Boodram, D.N. Stephens, K.S. Andrews, S.T. Ballah, M.N. Gowrie, P.M. Jagoo, N.M. St-Aimée & C.A. Western. Does brightness meaning warning colouration in butterfly wings? Living World (Port of Spain) 2002:49-50.
2002. Starr, C.K. Observations relating to populations of the giant grasshopper Tropidacris cristata in Trinidad, West Indies. Living World (Port of Spain) 2002:57.
2003. Starr, C.K. & A.W. Hook. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies (12):1-31. [PDF]
2003. Scheffrahn, R.H., J. Krecek, B. Maharajh, J.A. Chase, J.R. Mangold & C.K. Starr. Termite fauna (Isoptera) of Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies. Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies (12):33-38. [PDF]
2004. Starr, C.K. & J.N. Sewlal. An observation of nest relocation in the ant Cephalotes atratus. Living World (Port of Spain) 2004:11.
2004. Sewlal, J.N. & C.K. Starr. Observations of nest and colony structure of the neotropical ant Dolichoderus attelaboides (Formicide: Dolichoderinae). Living World (Port of Spain) 2004:20-22.
2004. Starr, C.K. Nesting biology of the solitary wasp Pison argentatum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Borneo and the Philippines. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77:565-572. [PDF]
2005. Starr, C.K. Defensive whirling behaviour in an Antillean daddy-longlegs spider (Araneae: Pholcidae). Living World (Port of Spain) 2005:52.
2006. Starr, C.K. & A.W. Hook. Polistes goeldii (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) is a widespread but rare social wasp. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15:177-180. [PDF]
2006. Starr, C.K. Steps toward a general theory of the colony cycle in social insects. Pp. 1-20 in: V.E. Kipyatkov (ed.), Life Cycles in Social Insects. St Petersburg: St Petersburg Univ. Press. [PDF]
2006. J. Kadir, R. Lewis & C.K. Starr. Notes on niche separation in the neotropical social wasps Polistes lanio and Polistes versicolor (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Living World (Port of Spain) 2006:27-29. [PDF]
2006. Starr, C.K. & J.N. Sewlal. Web height as a niche separator in two Antillean orb-weaving spiders. Living World (Port of Spain) 2006:55-56. [PDF]
2006. Hashim, R. bin, C.K. Starr & S. Turillazzi. Nest and species description of the Southeast-Asian hover wasp Eustenogaster gibbosa n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Tropical Zoology 19:289-296. [PDF]
2006. Hook, A.W. & C.K. Starr. Trypoxylon (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in Tobago, West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science 42:258-260. [PDF]
2007. Lee, X.Q. & C.K. Starr. Violent combat among Polistes gigas males (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Sociobiology 50:337-342. [PDF]
2007. Rusina, L.Yu., I.Yu. Rusin, C.K. Starr, A.V. Fateryga & L.A. Firman. Modes of colony foundation by females of different morphotypes in paper wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistes Latr.). Entomological Review 87:1155-1173. [Original russian version in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 86:750-772.] [Russian] [English]
2008. Sewlal, J.N. & C.K. Starr. Observations of the insect Arachnocoris trinitatus (Heteroptera: Nabidae) as an inquiline of the spider Mesabolivar aurantiacus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 44:132-135. [PDF]
2008. Sewlal, J.N. & C.K. Starr. New records of daddy-longlegs spiders (Pholcidae) from the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Living World (Port of Spain) 2008:78.
2009. Starr, C.K. Trinidad & Tobago. Pp. 926-929 in: R. Gillespie & D. Clague (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Islands. Berkeley: Univ. California Press.
1985. Starr, C.K. Jean-Henri Fabre and biological systematics. DLSU Dialogue, Manila 20:36-65. [PDF]
1986. Starr, C.K. Jean-Henri Fabre en face de la biosystématique. Pp. 75-113 in: P. Rassat, Y. Delange & O. Collamand (eds.), Actes du Congrès Jean-Henri Fabre, Aniversaire du Jubilé (1910-1985). Paris: Le Léopard d'Or. [PDF]
1988. Starr, C.K. Jean-Henri Fabre and his entomological emotions. Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion (6):118-119. [PDF]
1992. Starr, C.K. & W.B. Peck 1992. Petrusewicz's escape -- the tall and the short of it. American Arachnology (45):11-12.
1995. Starr, C.K. & M.L. Jiménez. The spiders of Hernández's Natural History of New Spain. American Arachnology (51):11-12.
2003. Starr, C.K. The origin and early years of the IUSSI. Pp. xi-xvi in: T. Kikuchi, N. Azuma & S. Higashi (eds.), Genes, Behaviors and Evolution of Social Insects. Sapporo: Hokkaido Univ. Press.
2004. Starr, C.K. The meaning of natural history in our time. Living World (Port of Spain) 2004 (Supplement):4-8.
2008. Starr, C.K. Ein Besuch im "Johannes-Dzierzon-Museum" in Kluczbork (Polen). bembiX (27):32-39. [PDF]
ETHNOBIOLOGY, FOLKLORE AND LANGUAGE
1990. Starr, C.K. & M.E. Bozzoli de Wille. Social wasps among the Bribri of Costa Rica. Pp. 187-194 in: W.L. Overal (ed.), Ethnobiology: Implications and Applications. Part. B. Ethnozoology. Belém: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. [PDF]
1993. Starr, C.K. Yami ethnoentomology. Field Materials of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (8):117-134.
1999. Starr, C.K. Anansi the spider-man: A West African trickster in the West Indies. Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies (10):36-37.
2005. Starr, C.K. & M.A. Thomas. Vocabulary from a West-Indian men's room. Maledicta 13:109-121.
2007. Starr, C.K. Compass points in English surnames. Names 55:343-348. [PDF]
TRANSLATIONS [all into English]
Dzierzon, J. 1845. Gutachten über die von Hrn. Direktor Stöhr im ersten und zweiten Kapitel des General-Gutachtens aufgestellten Fragen. Bienen-Zeitung (Eichstädt) 1:109-13, 119-21. [German] [English]
Gebien, H. 1928. Käfer als Ehebarometer. Entomologische Mitteilungen 17:14. In: Agham (Manila) 12:121, 1986
Jacobson, E. 1935. Anteekeningen over Stenogastrinae. Ent. Med. Ned.-Indië 1:15-19. In: Sphecos (16):16-19, 1988.
Kerr, W.E., V.A. Nascimento & G.A. Carvalho 1994. Há salvação para os meliponíneos? Anais do Encontro sobre Abelhas, Ribeirão Preto 1:60-65. In: Pegone (4):14-16.
Marchal, P. 1897. La castration nutriciale chez les Hyménoptères sociales. Comptes Rendus de la Société Biologique de Paris (10) 4:556-557. In: Sphecos (5):26-27, 1982.
Roubaud, E. 1916. Recherches biologiques sur les guêpes solitaires et sociales d'Afrique. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie) (10) 1:1-160. [Pp 150-153 (summary) only.]
Voviekov, G.S. 1953. [Natural requeening in bumble bee colonies.] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 33:174-181. In: International Bee Research Association translation bank.