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RECORD NUMBER: 166 OF 330Main Title | Life on a little-known planet / | |||||||||||
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Author | Evans, Howard Ensign. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Dutton, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1968 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 00248384 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0233961682; 9780233961682 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Insects--Behavior ; Behavior, Insect ; Insecta | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Insects--Behavior | |||||||||||
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Edition | {1st ed.} | |||||||||||
Collation | 318 pages illustrations 25 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304). |
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Contents Notes | Popularly written, informative account of the characteristics of some species of 6-legged insects including springtails, roaches, dragonflies, crickets, fireflies, butterflies, flies, bedbugs, locusts, and wasps. The universe as seen from a suburban porch -- Cities in the soil : the world of springtails -- The intellectual and emotional world of the cockroach -- Water lizards and aerial dragons -- The cricket as poet and pugilist -- In defense of magic : the story of fireflies -- Interlude in the Elysian Meadows : butterflies -- Paean to a volant voluptuary : the fly -- Bedbugs, cone-nosed bugs, and other cuddly animals -- Year of the locust -- Parasitic wasps, and how they made Peyton Place possible -- Of springs, silent and otherwise -- Is nature necessary? |