All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not?
Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other
animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food
available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten?
From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps,
predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of
finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry,
escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay
alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship
between the eaten and the eater is a central - perhaps the central
- aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By
explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for
a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive
strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of
the unrelenting co-evolutionary forces at work in the world around
us.
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