Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect Life

✍ Scribed by Pierre Jolivet, Krishna K. Verma

• Publisher: Bainbridge Books
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Книга Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect Life Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect LifeКниги Биология Автор: Pierre Jolivet, Krishna K. Verma Год издания: 2006 Формат: pdf Издат.:Bainbridge Books Страниц: 310 Размер: 7,3 ISBN: 1891696203 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:This book highlights the very successful and much diversified group of organisms, the insects, and deals with some interesting aspects of insect life, which are often ignored in entomology textbooks. There are chapters on ants making "slaves;" insect migrations; chemical defence strategies; parental care and love; AIDS and insects; killer bees; and intelligence. The book also includes first-hand experiences of the great traveler-naturalist Prof. P. Jolivet, who narrates the re-emergence of the 17-year-cycle cicada in the USA in May 2004; the occurrence of insects on the great tepuys of Venezuela; marching of army ants in the tropical Africa; and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 6
ISBN 9546422428......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Preface
......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
How successful are insects?......Page 14
Insects at sea......Page 21
Insects in frigid regions......Page 32
Omnipresent ants......Page 39
Insect migrations......Page 50
When ants wake up!......Page 61
Chemical defence in beetles and moths......Page 65
Instinct and intelligence in insects......Page 76
Do insects learn?......Page 82
Insects and tools......Page 85
Insect aggregations......Page 97
Infra-red receptors......Page 103
Round defence (cycloalexy)......Page 109
AIDS and insects......Page 118
Living clouds......Page 122
Killer bees......Page 129
Butterfly hunters......Page 133
Interesting ways of bees and dung beetles......Page 140
A memorable month, May 2004, in the USA......Page 145
Digestive strategies in insects......Page 154
Insects and Plants during the carboniferous......Page 164
Jurassic Park or the world of cycads......Page 169
The lost world or the tepuys of Venezuela and insects there......Page 182
Insects and the Gondwana Hypothesis......Page 193
Love match!......Page 203
Damselflies, experts in ballistics......Page 211
Forest on the back......Page 217
Scorpion beetles and lantern beetles......Page 223
Timarcha, a blood spitting magistrate......Page 231
Rotation of the male copulatory organ in insects and biased chirality......Page 237
Carnivorous plants - insect enemies or friends?......Page 241
Parental care in insects......Page 247
Pheromones......Page 256
Parasol ants......Page 261
Do ants make slaves?......Page 266
Do insects feel pain?......Page 270
Pocket mites......Page 273
Aphids and ants......Page 283
Locusts......Page 287
Walking in insects......Page 294
Coprophagy - insect brethren of crowned pigs of Borneo......Page 296
Lamarck's ghost or the Baldwin effect......Page 304
Acknowledgments......Page 311