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The earwig's tail [electronic resource]

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Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. In The Earwig's Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world.

Title The earwig's tail [electronic resource] : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends / May R. Berenbaum.
Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Creation Date 2009
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- The Twenty-First-Century Insectiary -- The Beasts -- The Aerodynamically Unsound Bumble Bee -- The Brain-Boring Earwig -- The California Tongue Cockroach -- The Domesticated Crab Louse -- The Extinction-Prevention Bee -- The Filter-Lens Fly -- The Genetically Modified Frankenbug -- The Headless Cockroach -- The Iraqi Camel Spider -- The Jumping Face Bug -- The Kissing Bug -- The “Locust” -- The Mate-Eating Mantis -- The Nuclear Cockroach -- The Olympian Flea -- The Prognosticating Woollyworm -- The Queen Bee -- The Right-Handed Ant -- The Sex-Enhancing Spanishfly -- The Toilet Spider -- The Unslakable Mosquito -- The Venomous Daddy longlegs -- The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly -- The X-ray- Induced Giant Insect The Yogurt Beetle -- The Zapper Bug -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Extent 1 online resource (209 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010714813405171
MARC RECORDS
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