Insect Lives

Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
Herausgeber: Hoyt, Erich; Schultz, Ted

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature, Science, Art, and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosis * Alfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the Malay Archipelago * Jean-Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetle * Dave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National Insect * Charles Darwin on seagoing insects * William Beebe on an army ant invasion * Kevin Kelly on bee?and human?swarming * Jonathan Schell on postnuclear insect survival * Gary Larson on when insects take over * May Berenbaum on maggots and murderers * Henry David Thoreau on race wars among the ants * Thomas Eisner on stealth bugs * David George Gordon on appreciating the lowly cockroach * Maurice Maeterlinck on the queen-bee's wedding * Edward O. Wilson on insect societies ?plus many other essays, illustrations, cartoons, screenplays, poems, recipes, tales, and observations on insect life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780471282778
• ISBN-10: 0471282774
• Artikelnr.: 21506084

Autorenporträt

ERICH HOYT has written for National Geographic and the New York Times. He is the author of ten books, including The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants. TED SCHULTZ, Ph.D., is an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution and a former editor of Whole Earth Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Wonders of Creation: Insects Praised.

Plagues of Vermin: Insects Reviled.

To Conquer the Earth: Insects Take Over.

A Cast of Millions on a Fantastic Journey: Mass Movement.

The Superorganism: Social Insects.

Insect Architecture.

Go Forth and Multiply: Mating and Reproduction.

Metamorphosis.

Symbioses and Mimicry.

Lives under the Microscope: Insect Behavior.

Acknowledgments.

Indexes.