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Ten Insects That Changed the World
About this book
Did you know that the mosquito played an important role in the Louisiana Purchase? Or that dung beetles saved the cattle industry in Australia? That honeybees pollinate about one third of the food we eat? Or that the deadliest animal on earth is an insect? There's an ant colony some 3, 700 miles long! Morgan's sphinx moth has a tongue more than 13 inches long. A locust plague stopped trains as the tracks became slippery with their crushed bodies. There's a grasshopper in Africa that eats mice. Jim Nelson's latest book is a treasure house of fascinating facts, stunning photographs and shocking historical events. One moment you might cringe reading about billions of locusts descending on farmland. The next you may laugh out loud at anecdotes and original poetry. Read about the wasp that turns a cockroach into a zombie or the historic 2024 hatch of a trillion cicadas. Trivia buffs will love the "Insect Book of Records" and chefs can add several insect recipes to their repertoire.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Wonderful World of Insects
- Chapter 1: Ants
- Interlude 1: What’s in a Name?
- Chapter 2: The Honeybee
- Interlude 2: The Wonder of Metamorphosis
- Chapter 3: The Flea
- Interlude 3: Insect Collections
- Chapter 4: Locusts (Just Another Name for Grasshopper)
- Interlude 4: What’s for dinner? Insects as Food
- Chapter 5: The Mosquito
- Interlude 5: Insect Armageddon – Is it Real?
- Chapter 6: Cockroaches
- Interlude 6: Numbers
- Chapter 7: The Fruit Fly
- Interlude 7: Migration of the Monarch Butterfly
- Chapter 8: Dung Beetles
- Interlude 8: An Evening with a Tree Cricket
- Chapter 9: The Silk Moth
- Interlude 9: The Book of Insect Records
- Chapter 10: Cicadas
- Interlude 10: Sex
- Epilogue: The Most Invasive Species on Earth
- Works Cited
- Further Reading