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This book offers a collection of literary pieces in which insects (and some other arthropods) appear, illustrating numerous and diverse situations in everyday human culture and language where they are used as comparisons and varied examples that reflect their importance in communication. Included are varied pieces from novels, history, medicine, poetry and many other areas that the author has read and selected for any interested reader. This selection is summarized, punctual and comparative, and always indicates the source from which it was obtained, and has only been made to broaden cultural…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book offers a collection of literary pieces in which insects (and some other arthropods) appear, illustrating numerous and diverse situations in everyday human culture and language where they are used as comparisons and varied examples that reflect their importance in communication. Included are varied pieces from novels, history, medicine, poetry and many other areas that the author has read and selected for any interested reader. This selection is summarized, punctual and comparative, and always indicates the source from which it was obtained, and has only been made to broaden cultural points of view and as summary references for the reader to read the complete work in its entirety.
Autorenporträt
Er studierte Agrarwissenschaften an der Universität von Chile. Im Jahr 1981 erwarb er einen MS an der Utah State University, 1986 einen PhD an der Purdue University, beide in Entomologie. Seit 1993 ist er ordentlicher Professor. Autor von ¿200 wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten; hat viele Vorträge auf Konferenzen über Biologie und Management von Pflanzenschädlingen gehalten. Autor mehrerer Bücher in seinem Fachgebiet.