| Sperm competition, kinship, and sociality in the aculeate Hymenoptera CK Starr Sperm competition and the evolution of animal mating systems 428, 459, 1984 | 254 | 1984 |
| Enabling mechanisms in the origin of sociality in the Hymenoptera—the sting's the thing CK Starr, Communicated by Robert W. Matthews Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78 (6), 836-840, 1985 | 95 | 1985 |
| Origin and evolution of insect sociality: a review of modern theory CK Starr Social insects, 35-79, 1979 | 83 | 1979 |
| The nest as the locus of social life CK Starr The social biology of wasps, 520-539, 1991 | 57 | 1991 |
| A simple pain scale for field comparison of hymenopteran stings CK Starr Journal of Entomological Science 20 (2), 225-232, 1985 | 51 | 1985 |
| Holding the fort: Colony defense in some primitively social wasps. CK Starr | 47 | 1990 |
| An extraordinary concentration of stingless bee colonies in the Philippines, with notes on nest structure (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Trigona spp.). CK Starr, SF Sakagami | 47 | 1987 |
| The social wasps (Hymenoptera: vespidae) of Taiwan CK Starr Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science 3, 93-138, 1992 | 46 | 1992 |
| Hornet venoms: lethalities and lethal capacities JO Schmidt, S Yamane, M Matsuura, CK Starr Toxicon 24 (9), 950-954, 1986 | 41 | 1986 |
| Nest reutilization by Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) and possible limitation of multiple foundress associations by parasitoids CK Starr Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 142-144, 1976 | 41 | 1976 |
| Nest-site preferences of the giant honey bee, Apis dorsata(Hymenoptera: Apidae), in Borneo. CK Starr, PJ Schmidt, JO Schmidt Pan-Pacific Entomologist 63 (1), 37-42, 1987 | 34 | 1987 |
| A new genus of hover wasps from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Stenogastrinae) JM Carpenter, CK Starr American Museum Novitates 2000 (3291), 1-12, 2000 | 31 | 2000 |
| The bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Taiwan CK Starr Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science 3, 139-157, 1992 | 30 | 1992 |
| Sexual behavior in Dictyna volucripes (Araneae, Dictynidae) CK Starr Journal of Arachnology, 321-330, 1988 | 23 | 1988 |
| Microstigmus comes wasps have a method of nest construction unique among social insects RW Matthews, CK Starr Biotropica, 55-58, 1984 | 21 | 1984 |
| In reply, is the sting the thing? CK Starr | 20 | 1989 |
| Nest reutilization in North American Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): two possible selective factors CK Starr Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 394-397, 1978 | 20 | 1978 |
| Steps toward a general theory of the colony cycle in social insects CK Starr Life cycles in social insects: behaviour, ecology and evolution, 1-20, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
| The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies CK Starr, AW Hook University of the West Indies 12, 1-30, 2003 | 18 | 2003 |
| Optimal foraging theory GH Pyke, CK Starr Encyclopedia of social insects, 677-685, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
