Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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What lives in a reindeer’s nose? Glad you asked. In this sequel to Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, National Medal of Science winner May Berenbaum offers another classic compendium of creepy-crawly cameos. Read up on our myriad arthropodan indignities and allies as Berenbaum reveals:Why the rove beetle gives mind-altering drugs to antsHow the snail-killing fly enjoys its escargotWhy Piophila casei doesn’t care when you eat its larvaeWhat strange fate awaits a honey ant worker engorged with nectar As lively as a fly in the buttermilk, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers is a who’s who and what’s THAT? guide to Lilliputian life-forms both familiar and obscure.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252063220

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May R. Berenbaum is Swanlund Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A winner of the National Medal of Science in 2014, Berenbaum is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her books include Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers and Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World. John Parker Sherrod is a technical artist for the Illinois Natural History Survey and a freelance illustrator.