How Not to Be Eaten : the Insects Fight Back.
by
 
Waldbauer, Gilbert.

Title
How Not to Be Eaten : the Insects Fight Back.

Author
Waldbauer, Gilbert.

ISBN
9780520952461
 
9781283373548
 
9780520269125

Publication Information
CA : University of California Press, 2012.

Physical Description
1 online resource (237 pages)

Abstract
All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and.

Subject Term
Insects -- Defenses.
 
Insects -- Predators of.

Electronic Access
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn5rk


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Online LibraryE-Book376034-1001ONLINEElektronik Kütüphane