Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World

A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature, Science, Art, and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosis
* Alfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the MalayArchipelago
* Jean-Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetle
* Dave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National Insect
* Charles Darwin on seagoing insects
* William Beebe on an army ant invasion
* Kevin Kelly on bee and human swarming
* Jonathan Schell on postnuclear insect survival
* Gary Larson on when insects take over
* May Berenbaum on maggots and murderers
* Henry David Thoreau on race wars among the ants
* Thomas Eisner on stealth bugs
* David George Gordon on appreciating the lowly cockroach
* Maurice Maeterlinck on the queen-bee s wedding
* Edward O. Wilson on insect societies

plus many other essays, illustrations, cartoons, screenplays, poems, recipes, tales, and observations on insect life.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 10/18/1999
ISBN: 9780471282778
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.28w x 1.19d

Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/1999 pg. 102
Booklist 10/15/1999 pg. 401