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.