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Insect Lives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674009523

  • ISBN10:

    0674009525

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-11-30
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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Summary

Insects inhabit an often unexamined microcosmos, pursuing lives that are often strange beyond our wildest imaginings. From the dawn of humanity, our six-legged fellow Earthlings have repelled and enthralled us. Humans have exterminated, eaten, domesticated, and even excommunicated insects. We collect them, we curse them, and we have penned a surprising body of literature about them.Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World offers an entertaining and informative survey of the human fascination, dreadful and otherwise, with insects diabolical and divine, from accounts in the Bible and Aristotle to the writings of Charles Darwin and the great nineteenth-century naturalists sending home accounts from the rain forest. Highlighted here are observations from E. O. Wilson, Jean-Henri Fabreacute;, David Quammen, May Berenbaum, Roger Swain, William Wordsworth, A. S. Byatt, Gary Larson and more than sixty other writers who tell of the mystery and romance of that other, hidden world beneath our feet and beyond our rolled-up newspapers.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note viii
Introduction 1(4)
Wonders of Creation: Insects Praised
5(44)
So Great the Excitement
7(6)
Alfred Russel Wallace
To a Butterfly
13(1)
William Wordsworth
The Sacred Beetle
14(6)
Jean-Henri Fabre
Enjoying Insects in the Home Garden
20(5)
Howard Ensign Evans
The Ways of a Mud Dauber
25(4)
George D. Shafer
Ode to the Cricket
29(2)
William Cowper
Manna from Heaven
31(3)
Things Clean and Unclean
34(2)
The Culinary Marvels of Insect Life
36(2)
Edward Step
Insect Extravaganza
38(2)
Jim Mertins
Why Not Eat Insects?
40(2)
Vincent M. Holt
Sugaring for Moths
42(4)
W.J. Holland
Bug Off!
46(3)
Dave Barry
Plagues of Vermin: Insects Reviled
49(40)
A Treatise of Buggs
51(2)
John Southall
Death-Watch Beetles and the Flypaper Sellers of London
53(9)
Frank Cowan
Insecticides
62(2)
Tim Hunkin
Bee Bites
64(5)
Roger B. Swain
A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp, and Ant Stings
69(6)
Christopher K. Starr
Fancy Footwork
75(4)
David George Gordon
Sympathy for the Devil
79(4)
David Quammen
Of Maggots and Murderers
83(6)
May Berenbaum
To Conquer the Earth: Insects Take Over
89(18)
Disturbing the Composure of an Entomologist's Mind
91(3)
Charles Darwin
Locusts in the Land of Egypt
94(2)
Giant Red Velvet Mites
96(2)
Irwin M. Newell
Lloyd Tevis Jr.
Them!
98(4)
George Worthing Yates
Ted Sherdeman
Insects from Mars
102(1)
A Republic of Insects and Grass
103(2)
Jonathan Schell
Insects Take Over
105(1)
Gary Larson
The End
106(1)
W. J. Holland
A Cast of Millions on a Fantastic Journey: Mass Movement
107(24)
Insects at Sea
109(2)
Charles Darwin
Army Ants
111(5)
Thomas Belt
Caterpillars on the Line
116(2)
George John Romanes
Swarms of Flies
118(5)
Harold Oldroyd
More Flies at Teatime
123(4)
Vincent G. Dethier
Need Nectar, Will Travel
127(4)
Stephen L. Buchmann
Gary Paul Nabhan
The Superorganism: Social Insects
131(26)
The Insect Societies
133(4)
Edward O. Wilson
Morpho Eugenia
137(6)
A. S. Byatt
The Spirit of the Hive
143(3)
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Termite Queen in Her Egg Chamber
146(1)
Gary Larson
Hive Mind
147(10)
Kevin Kelly
Insect Architecture
157(30)
Some Accounts of the Termites
159(7)
Henry Smeathman
The Hometown of the Army Ants
166(3)
William Beebe
The New Zealand Glow-worm
169(3)
F. W. Edwards
Guatemalan Web-Spinning Cave Flies
172(4)
O. F. Cook
Caddisfly Houses and Net Traps
176(4)
Bernd Heinrich
Bee Cells
180(7)
Karl von Frisch
Go Forth and Multiply: Mating and Reproduction
187(38)
The Hostile Madness of Love
189(4)
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Synchronous Flashing of Fireflies
193(5)
John Buck
Elisabeth Buck
Sex on the Brain
198(8)
James E. Lloyd
The Courtship Gifts of Balloon Flies
206(7)
Edward L. Kessel
How to Win Mates and Influence Enemies
213(6)
John Alcock
Fatal Attractions
219(4)
May Berenbaum
No Sex, Please
223(2)
Tim Hunkin
Metamorphosis
225(22)
Of Eggs, Grubs, Nymphas, and Wings
227(2)
Aristotle
The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars
229(3)
Maria Sibylla Merian
Everyday Miracles
232(4)
William Kirby
William Spence
The Mediterranean Worm Lion
236(3)
William Morton Wheeler
Mexican Jumping Beans. Real! Live!
239(2)
Chaparral Novelties
The Double Life
241(6)
Robert Evans Snodgrass
Symbioses and Mimicry
247(50)
Tiny Pollinator; Big Job
249(4)
Stephen L. Buchmann
Gary Paul Nabhan
Jerry's Botfly
253(6)
Adrian Forsyth
The Ant and the Acacia Tree
259(6)
Thomas Belt
To a Louse
265(2)
Robert Burns
An Earful of Mites
267(13)
Asher E. Treat
Murder by Narcosis
280(4)
Edward Jacobson
The Ant-Decapitating Fly
284(5)
Theodore Pergande
For the Love of Nature
289(3)
Thomas Eisner
Mimics, Aggressive and Otherwise
292(5)
John Alcock
Lives under the Microscope: Insect Behavior
297(52)
Little Crumple-Wing
299(8)
George D. Shafer
Brute Neighbors
307(3)
Henry David Thoreau
Slave-Making in Ants
310(4)
Charles Darwin
The Daintiness of Ants
314(6)
Reverend Henry C. McCook
The Tenderness of Earwigs
320(2)
Charles Degeer
George John Romanes
Letter from Brazil: Termites and Stingless Bees
322(4)
Fritz Muller
Charles Darwin
The Social Behavior of Burying Beetles
326(7)
Lorus J. Milne
Margery Milne
Insect Consciousness
333(16)
Donald R. Griffin
Acknowledgments 349(4)
List of Authors 353(1)
Index 354

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