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How Not to Be EatenThe Insects Fight Back.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How Not to Be Eaten/
Reminder of title:	The Insects Fight Back.
Author:	Waldbauer, Gilbert.
Published:	CA :University of California Press, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (237 p.)
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	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:	Insects - Defenses. -
Online resource:	http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=827645
ISBN:	9780520952461 (electronic bk.)

How Not to Be EatenThe Insects Fight Back.
Waldbauer, Gilbert.

How Not to Be EatenThe Insects Fight Back.[electronic resource] : - CA :University of California Press,2012. - 1 online resource (237 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1. Insects in the Web of Life; 2. The Eaters of Insects; 3. Fleeing and Staying under Cover; 4. Hiding in Plain Sight; 5. Bird Dropping Mimicry and Other Disguises; 6. Flash Colors and Eyespots; 7. Safety in Numbers; 8. Defensive Weapons and Warning Signals; 9. The Predators' Countermeasures; 10. Protection by Deception; Epilogue; Selected References; Index;

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.

ISBN: 9780520952461 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

323418
Insects - Defenses.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

228523
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QL496

Dewey Class. No.: 595.7

How Not to Be EatenThe Insects Fight Back.
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