Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers

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University of Illinois Press, 1993 - Gardening - 285 pages
What lives in a reindeer's nose? Glad you asked. In this sequel to Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, National Medal of Science winner May Berenbaum offers another classic compendium of creepy-crawly cameos. Read up on our myriad arthropodan indignities and allies as Berenbaum reveals:
Why the rove beetle gives mind-altering drugs to ants
How the snail-killing fly enjoys its escargot
Why Piophila casei doesn't care when you eat its larvae
What strange fate awaits a honey ant worker engorged with nectar

As lively as a fly in the buttermilk, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers is a who's who and what's THAT? guide to Lilliputian life-forms both familiar and obscure.

 

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About the author (1993)

May R. Berenbaum is Swanlund Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A winner of the National Medal of Science in 2014, Berenbaum is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her books include Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers and Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World. John Parker Sherrod is a technical artist for the Illinois Natural History Survey and a freelance illustrator.

Bibliographic information

TitleNinety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers
AuthorMay Berenbaum
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press, 1993
ISBN0252063228, 9780252063220
Length285 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Gardening / General
Nature / Animals / Insects & Spiders
Nature / General
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
  
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