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  • Sasol First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa

    by Alan Weaving ...
    Series series Sasol First Field Guide
    Sasol First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the insects of the region. Full-colour photographs , distribution maps and easy-to-read text will help the budding naturalist to identify the more common insect groups that occur in southern Africa, discover where they occur, and learn about their behaviour and unusual features. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • Six-Legged Soldiers

    Using Insects as Weapons of War

    by Jeffrey A. Lockwood ...
    The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples found in Six-legged Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Sting of the Wild

    by Justin O. Schmidt ...
    The “King of Sting” describes his adventures with insects and the pain scale that’s made him a scientific celebrity.Silver, Science (Adult Non-Fiction) Foreword INDIES Award 2017Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it’s a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test ... Read more

    $17.19 USD

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  • Climate Change Biology

    by Lee Hannah ...
    Climate change biology is a new discipline, born of the recognition that human-induced climate change is resulting in wholesale shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The evidence for biological upheaval in response to climate change is immense. Migratory species are arriving earlier in the year. Flowers are blooming earlier. Ranges of plants, mammals and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Dancing Bees

    Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

    by Tania Munz ...
    "A triumph of science writing, a well crafted, deeply researched story of politics, ethics, and the fascinating lives of humans and bees." —Jonathan Eig, New York Times–bestselling authorWe think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bees

    Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language

    by Karl von Frisch ...
    Over half a century of brilliant scientific detective work, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl von Frisch learned how the world, looks, smells, and tastes to a bee. More significantly, he discovered their dance language and their ability to use the sun as a compass. Intended to serve as an accessible introduction to one of the most fascinating areas of biology, Bees (first published in 1950 ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Insect Reproduction

    by S. R. Leather ...
    This book consisting of ten review chapters contributed by leading workers in their respective fields, from around the world, covers the whole subject of insect reproduction.It begins with the basic physiological questions of insect reproduction, moves on to discuss the new advances seen in the fields of behavioural and ecological mechanisms, and culminates by examining the recent work on ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Caddisflies

    The Underwater Architects

    by Glenn Wiggins ...
    Series series Heritage
    Caddisflies constitute the insect order Trichoptera in which some 10,000 species are known in the world, including about 1400 in North America. Fossil evidence shows that caddisflies originated in the Triassic period, 200-250 million years ago. They are important links in the movement of energy and nutrients through freshwater ecosystems due largely to the extraordinary diversification in their ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Everyday Doings of Insects - With Illustrations by Hugh Main, Dr Herbert Shirley, Peter Scott, the Author and Others

    by Evelyn Cheesman ...
    “Everyday Doing's of Insects” is a fantastic guide to all things insects, looking at a variety of subjects from why insects are certain colours, to how they fly, breathe, and much more. This timeless guide is perfect for anyone looking for an introduction to the world of insects, and it would make for a fine addition to collections of allied literature. A wonderful introduction to the topic for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Species Diversity and Community Structure

    Novel Patterns and Processes in Plants, Insects, and Fungi

    by Teiji Sota, Hideki Kagata, Yoshino Ando, Shunsuke Utsumi, Takashi Osono ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces recent progress in the study of species diversity and community structures in terrestrial organisms conducted by three groups at Kyoto University. First, it explains species diversity and the functioning of fungi in Asian regions as outlined by metagenomic approaches using next-generation sequencing technology. The advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies accelerate ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

    Life at a Microscale

    by David Evans Walter, Heather C. Proctor ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance. Mites: Ecology, Evolution and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Insect Behavior

    by Robert W. Matthews, Janice R. Matthews ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Insect Behavior is the second edition of the text that for thirty years served as the fundamental introduction to a field of study that has been growing enormously. Today, new technologies and understandings are allowing questions to be shaped—and answered—in ways that once could not have been envisioned. However, massive new information also can overwhelm and obscure the broader perspectives ... Read more

    $89.09 USD