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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Harper Collins UK, 2020Description: xxv, 294 pages : 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780008316372
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QL467 SVE
Contents:
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?
Summary: 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.
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Books Books GSU Library Epoch Non-Fiction Novels Non-Fiction Novels NFIC-QL467SVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50000002304
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Books Books GSU Library Epoch Non-Fiction Novels Non-Fiction Novels NFIC-QL467SVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 50000002286

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.

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