Название: Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
Автор: Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody Siegler
Издательство: Belknap Press
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 385
Размер: 14.2 Мб
Язык: English
Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives—arthropods—nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive.