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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
Hoyt
ISBN: 978-0-471-28277-8
Hardcover
360 pages
April 1999
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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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