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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 Malay Archipelago* 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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Zoology & animal sciences

• Full title: Insect
• Subtitle: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
• Author: Hoyt
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780471282778
• ISBN: 9780471282778
• ID: 06783383
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 250 × 230 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 1999

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