Endless forms : the secret world of wasps
Title:
Endless forms : the secret world of wasps
Author:
Sumner, Seirian, author.
ISBN:
9780063029927
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description:
387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
The problelm 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.
Abstract:
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 behavioural 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.
