Extraordinary Insects : Weird, Wonderful, Indispensable, the Ones Who Run our World /

Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne

Extraordinary Insects : Weird, Wonderful, Indispensable, the Ones Who Run our World / Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson; Translation by Lucy Moffatt. - xxv, 294 pages : 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Small Creatures, Smart Design: Insect Anatomy --
Six-legged Sex: Dating, Mating and Parenting --
Eat or Be Eaten: Insects in the Food Chain --
Insects and Plants: A Never-ending Race --
Busy Flies, Flavoursome Bugs: Insects and Our Food --
The Circle of Life and Death: Insects as Caretakers --
From Silk to Shellac: Industries of Insects --
Lifesavers, Pioneers and Nobel Prize-winners: Insights from Insects --
Insects and Us: What's Next?

A Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019.A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures we can't live without.

9780008316372


Insects
Evolution --(Biology)
Insects----Behavior

QL467 / SVE