Author
Waldbauer, Gilbert.
Title
Insights from insects : what bad bugs can teach us / Gilbert Waldbauer.
Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.
Format
Book
Description
311 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Link
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004026928.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
Contents
The most dangerous insects : mosquitoes -- Evolution in action : house fly -- What Darwin wished he knew : Drosophila -- Natural selection outflanks farmers : corn rootworms -- How a species becomes two species : fruit flies -- Guaranteeing descendants : the numbers game : aphids -- Guaranteeing descendants : the role of parental care : tsetse fly -- Surviving winter as a sleeping egg : evergreen bagworm -- Escaping predators by deception : black swallowtail butterfly -- Why insects are such picky eaters : cabbage white butterfly -- "Nutritional wisdom" : corn earworm -- Invaders from abroad : gypsy moth -- An American saves the French wine industry : grape phylloxera -- An insecticide "creates" new pests : codling moth -- From low- to high-tech controls : European corn borer -- The demise of DDT : Japanese beetle -- Their passing from the agricultural scene : chinch bug -- Synchrony with the seasons : Hessian fly -- An insect to control another insect : cottony cushion scale -- Extermination by subverting the sex act : screwworm fly -- Epilogue.
ISBN
1591022770 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject
Insect pests.
Insects.
Insect pests -- Ecology.
Insects -- Ecology.
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