Endless Forms
The Secret World of Wasps
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioral ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.
Contents:
The problem with wasps -- The obsessions of wasp whisperers -- How to have a social life -- Playing the game -- Dinner with Aristotle -- Nature's pest controllers -- The secret pollinators -- A future with wasps.
ISBN:
9780063029927
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Bug Sum | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by William Collins"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-365) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-365) and index.