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9780674035409

The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674035409

  • ISBN10:

    0674035402

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-09-30
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books-at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda . In The Earwigrs"s Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world. Berenbaumrs"s compendium of tales is an alphabetical tour of modern myths that humorously illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. She tracks down the germ of scientific truth that inspires each insect urban legend and shares some wild biological lessons, which, because of the amazing nature of the insect world, can be more fantastic than even the mythic misperceptions.

Table of Contents

The Beasts
The Aerodynamically Unsound Bumble Bee
The Brain-Boring Earwig
The California Tongue Cockroach
The Domesticated Crab Louse
The Extinction-Prevention Bee
The Filter-Lens Fly
The Genetically Modified Frankenbug
The Headless Cockroach
The Iraqi Camel Spider
The Jumping Face Bug
The Kissing Bug
The "Locust"
The Mate-Eating Mantis
The Nuclear Cockroach
The Olympian Flea
The Prognosticating Woollyworm
The Queen Bee
The Right-Handed Ant
The Sex-Enhancing Spanishfly
The Toilet Spider
The Unslakable Mosquito
The Venomous Daddylonglegs
The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly
The X-ray Induced Giant Insect
The Yogurt Beetle
The Zapper Bug
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