| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-365) and index. |
| Contents |
The problelm with wasps -- The obsessions of wasp whisperers -- How to have a social life -- Playing the game -- Dinner with Aristotle -- Nature's pest controllers -- The secret pollinators -- A future with wasps. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Wasps -- Classification.
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Wasps.
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Wasps -- Behavior.
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Entomology.
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology.
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| ISBN |
9780063029927 (hardcover) |
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0063029928 (hardcover) |
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