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How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Gilbert Waldbauer; James Nardi (Illustrator)


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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 the eater is a central--perhaps the central--aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

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  • Title How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back
  • Author Gilbert Waldbauer; James Nardi (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2012-02-13
  • ISBN 9780520269125 / 0520269128
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Insects - Defenses, Insects - Predators of
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011024488
  • Dewey Decimal Code 595.7

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2012, Page 14
  • Choice, 07/01/2012, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/06/2012, Page 0

About the author

Gilbert Waldbauer is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at University of Illinois. He is the author of eight books, including Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (UC Press), A Walk around the Pond, and What Good Are Bugs?
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