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This Book tells a story about the fight for survival between Humans
and insects called Bedbugs. Humans think they are stronger than
insects; and they always think about destroying their existence.
But Humans trying to destroy insects'life don't understand one
thing: the consequences are mostly bad and quickly turn against
them. That's what we tried to show in this book using a comic way
to make the story look more funny for the readers.
This Naturalists' Handbook book covers the natural history, biology
and identification of the hoverfly. It will enable anyone to
identify the most common hoverflies of the British Isles, providing
practical guidance for methods of identification, advice on
techniques and approaches to research for those wishing to plan an
investigation or seeking advice on how to carry it out. The text is
accompanied by clear and detailed illustrations, and references,
further reading and useful addresses are included. It is a
comprehensive, user-friendly resource for students, professionals,
or anyone with an interest in the natural history of the hoverfly.
Hoverflies are attractive, conspicuous and lively insects often
seen visiting flowers. Their larvae are colourful but usually well
hidden, emerging at night at feed on aphids or greenfly. They play
a significant part in the biological control of crop pests. This
book introduces the natural history of hoverflies with a thumbnail
sketch of 42 of the species most likely to be found. It describes
the biology and behaviour of the larvae, with their wide range of
different diets, and discusses the tiny wasps that may parasitise
them. In the adults, particular attention is paid to courtship
behaviour and egg-laying, as well as flower-feeding. Selected
species can be matched against the colour pictures, and their
identification confirmed by a short list of critical characters.
This book is a digital reprint of ISBN 0-85546-255-8 (1993).
Naturalists' Handbooks encourage and enable those interested in
natural history to undertake field study, make accurate
identifications and to make original contributions to research.
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water;
female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars
disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their
bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow
soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond
imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest
astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of
such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celebrates the small
creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, the
beneficiaries of extraordinary evolutionary inventiveness and
unparalleled reproductive capacity. To understand the success of
insects is to appreciate our own shortcomings, Eisner tells us, but
never has a reckoning been such a pleasure. Recounting exploits and
discoveries in his lab at Cornell and in the field in Uruguay,
Australia, Panama, Europe, and North America, Eisner time and again
demonstrates how inquiry into the survival strategies of an insect
leads to clarifications beyond the expected; insects are revealed
as masters of achievement, forms of life worthy of study and
respect from even the most recalcitrant entomophobe. Filled with
descriptions of his ingenious experiments and illustrated with
photographs unmatched for their combination of scientific content
and delicate beauty, Eisner's book makes readers participants in
the grand adventure of discovery on a scale infinitesimally small,
and infinitely surprising.
Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue
attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep
within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals.
Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy crawlies
and the taxonomies in which they were embedded in China, Japan, and
Korea to present a history of human and animal cocreation of
habitats in ways that were both deliberate and unwitting. Using
sources spanning from the earliest written records into the
twentieth century, the contributors draw on a wide range of
disciplines to explore the dynamic interaction between the notional
insects that infested authors' imaginations and the six-legged
creatures buzzing, hopping, and crawling around them.
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