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For Love of Insects (Paperback, New edition)
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For Love of Insects (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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