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Gilbert Waldbauer What Good Are Bugs? (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- What Good Are Bugs?
- Title
- What Good Are Bugs?
- EAN
- 9780674016323
- ISBN
- 9780674016323
- Release Date
- 25/10/2004
- Release Year
- 2004
- Item Length
- 156mm
- Subtitle
- Insects in the Web of Life
- ISBN-10
- 0674016327
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Science Nature & Math
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Zoology
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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We shriek about them, slap and spray them, and generally think of insects (when we think of them at all) as pests. Yet, if all insects, or even a critical few, were to disappear--if there were none to pollinate plants, serve as food for other animals, dispose of dead organisms, and perform other ecologically essential tasks--virtually all the ecosystems on earth, the webs of life, would unravel. This book, the first to catalogue ecologically important insects by their roles, gives us an enlightening look at how insects work in ecosystems--what they do, how they live, and how they make life as we know it possible. In What Good Are Bugs? Gilbert Waldbauer combines anecdotes from entomological history with insights into the intimate workings of the natural world, describing the intriguing and sometimes amazing behavior of these tiny creatures. He weaves a colorful, richly textured picture of beneficial insect life on earth, from ants sowing their hanging gardens on Amazonian shrubs and trees to the sacred scarab of ancient Egypt burying balls of cattle dung full of undigested seeds, from the cactus-eating caterpillar (aptly called Cactoblastis) controlling the spread of the prickly pear to the prodigious honey bee and the sanitary officers of the field --the fly maggots, ants, beetles, and caterpillars that help decompose and recycle dung, carrion, and dead plants. As entertaining as it is informative, this charmingly illustrated volume captures the full sweep of insects' integral place in the web of life.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674016323
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Publication Year
2004
Subject
Zoology
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
235 mm
Item Width
156 mm
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United States
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