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 ...
Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives - arthropods - nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely pre-eminence is a story deftly and colourfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part ...
Chemical signals among organisms form "a vast communicative interplay, fundamental to the fabric of life," in the words of one expert. Chemical ecology is the discipline that seeks to understand these interactions - to use biology in the search for new substances of potential benefit to humankind. This book highlights selected research areas of ...
In this book, Thomas Eisner presents us with a portfolio of natural imagery hitherto unseen, the fruit of his search for beauty in nature. He examined autumnal leaves in the midst of color change and was enthralled by what came into view at higher magnifications. The imagery was art at its best. He turned to his camera and the result is a series ...
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