Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World

ISBN-13: 9780471282778 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 368 str.

Erich Hoyt; Ted R. Schultz

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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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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.

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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.