Endless forms

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“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being Interested

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.

Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? Deemed the gangsters of the insect world, wasps are winged assassins with formidable stings. Conduits of Biblical punishment, provokers of fear and loathing, inspiration for horror movies: wasps are perhaps the most maligned insect on our planet.

But do wasps deserve this reputation?

Endless Forms opens our eyes to the highly complex and diverse world of wasps. Wasps are 100 million years older than bees; there are ten times more wasp species than there are bees. There are wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig; wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies; wasps that live inside other wasps. There are wasps that build citadels that put our own societies to shame, marked by division of labor, rebellions and policing, monarchies, leadership contests, undertakers, police, negotiators, and social parasites. Wasps are nature’s most misunderstood insect: as predators and pollinators, they keep the planet’s ecological balance in check. Wasps are nature’s pest controllers; a world without wasps would be just as ecologically devastating as losing the bees, or beetles, or butterflies.

Wasps are diverse and beautiful by every measure, and they are invaluable to planetary health, Professor Sumner reminds us; we’d do well to appreciate them as much as their cuter cousins, the bees.

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Endless Forms

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a funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic weird and wonderful world of wasps dave goulson author of silent earth there may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders a funny and beautifully written welcome to the enig Uiterlijk 6 december in huis .. MEER INFO

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a book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from robin ince author of the importance of being interested 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 ec Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Where Our Food Comes From

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the future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over in 1943 one of the first to recognize this fact the great botanist nikolay vavilov lay dying of starvation in a soviet prison but in the years before stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country s famines Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 juli 2022

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Hoofdauteur: Seirian Sumner

Hoofduitgeverij: Harper

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Studieboek: Nee

EAN: 9780063029941

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