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Bugs in the system : insects and their impact on human affairs

Author: M Berenbaum
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, ©1995.
Series: Helix book.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The vast majority of people consider it a high priority to minimize the extent of their interaction with the insect world. Homes are sealed, sprayed, and kept meticulously clean so as to reduce the probability that they will be invaded by insects; similarly, bodies are bathed, hair is shampooed, and clothing regularly washed in order to eliminate any unwanted contact with six-legged life forms. In the overwhelmingly  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: M Berenbaum
ISBN: 0201408244 9780201408249
OCLC Number: 41996413
Description: xiii, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface --
1. Classification and nomenclature ("a rose-chafer by any other name...") --
History of classificaiton --
Arthropod arrangements --
2. Physiology --
Good things in small packages --
Metamorphosis (quick-change artistry) --
Reproduction (sex, bugs, and rock and roll) --
Genetics (designer genes) --
3. Behavior --
Sensory physiology --
Listening to sounds (cheep trills) --
Looking around (sights to behold) --
Tastes and smells --
4. Social lives --
The joys of group living --
Social structures --
Bees in business --
Pollination --
Killer bees --
5. Vegetarian lifestyles --
Green meals --
Down on the farm --
Population growth (locust plagues and insect exorcisms) --
Useful homopterans (working for scale) --
Gallmakers ("gall enough in thy ink") --
Silk and silkworms --
Store-product pests and home invaders --
6. Eating insects --
Meat-eating for fun and profit --
Parasitoids --
Biological control of insects --
Insects as prey (studies in bad taste) --
Insects as medicine (flies in the ointment) --
Human entomophagy (rustling up some grubs) --
7. Parasites and hosts --
Insects parasitic on humans (what's eating you?) --
Lice, typhus, and war (a lousy situation) --
Fleas and plague --
The buzz on mosquitoes --
Aedes (a mosquito, a plan, a canal) --
Anopheles (to the vector go the spoils) --
8. Odd appetites and out-of-the-way places --
Coprophagy (dung-eating) and sacred scarabs --
Insects in carrion (of maggots and murderers) --
Bodies in the pantry --
Detritivores (the dirt on termites) --
Adjustments to life in or on the water --
Fly-tying and fly-fishing --
Aquatic insects as bioindicators (it's the pits) --
9. Insects and people --
History of entomology in the United States --
History of pest control --
Fire ants, Congress, and the EPA --
Entomophobia and delusory parasites --
Insects and the law --
10. Appreciating insects --
Insects as symbols --
Insects in art --
Bugs on the big screen --
Collecting insects for fun and profit --
11. Equal time (the insect perspective).
Series Title: Helix book.
Responsibility: May R. Berenbaum.

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The vast majority of people consider it a high priority to minimize the extent of their interaction with the insect world. Homes are sealed, sprayed, and kept meticulously clean so as to reduce the probability that they will be invaded by insects; similarly, bodies are bathed, hair is shampooed, and clothing regularly washed in order to eliminate any unwanted contact with six-legged life forms. In the overwhelmingly vast majority of daily conversations, insects are conspicuous in their absence; those rare conversations in which insects feature prominently are generally carried out in guarded tones, often with a touch of embarrassment.

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