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.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn5rkCopies:
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