Life on a little-known planet /
Popularly written, informative account of the characteristics of some species of 6-legged insects including springtails, roaches, dragonflies, crickets, fireflies, butterflies, flies, bedbugs, locusts, and wasps.
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| Language: | English |
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New York,
Dutton,
1968.
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
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Table of Contents:
- The universe as seen from a suburban porch
- Cities in the soil : the world of springtails
- The intellectual and emotional world of the cockroach
- Water lizards and aerial dragons
- The cricket as poet and pugilist
- In defense of magic : the story of fireflies
- Interlude in the Elysian Meadows : butterflies
- Paean to a volant voluptuary : the fly
- Bedbugs, cone-nosed bugs, and other cuddly animals
- Year of the locust
- Parasitic wasps, and how they made Peyton Place possible
- Of springs, silent and otherwise
- Is nature necessary?