154 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every science, including the study of insects, may have circumscribed limits, but its deeper principles open up new worlds of possibility. Milward uncovers these hidden principles by examining the daily lives and habits of insects. His studies lead him to fascinating speculations, taking the reader into the realms not only of literature, as suggested by the subtitle, but also of philosophy and... Read more
1: Ants in Antarctica; 2: Bees in the Bonnet; 3: A Song for Sentimental Centipedes; 4: Such Darling Daddy-Long-Legs; 5: Evenings with Earwigs; 6: Freedom for Flies!; 7: The Grasshopper in Grub Street; 8: Little Jack Hornet; 9: Jumpers and Junipers; 10: The Kat and the Katerpillar; 11: My Fair Ladybird; 12: Mesmerizing the Mosquito; 13: The Gnat is a Nitwit!; 14: O for an Oil-Fly!; 15: The Problem of the Praying Mantis; 16: Queen Bees in Question; 17: The Readiness of the Red Admiral; 18: I, Spider; 19: This Tremendous Termite; 20: Uses of the Unicorn; 21: Very Venerable Vermin; 22: Wee Willie Waspie; 23: Sex and Insex; 24: ZZZZZZZ; Epilogue Yintimations of Yantomology
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Peter Milward
