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Author Berenbaum, M. (May)

Title The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends / May R. Berenbaum.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
Contents 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 daddylonglegs -- The wing-flapping chaos butterfly -- The X-ray-induced giant insect -- The yogurt beetle -- The zapper bug.
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Subject Insects -- Popular works.
Insects.
Genre/Form Popular works.
Subject Arthropoda -- Popular works.
Arthropoda.
Errors, Scientific.
Errors, Scientific.
Common fallacies.
Common fallacies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Berenbaum, M. (May). Earwig's tail. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674035409 (DLC) 2009013733 (OCoLC)316037943
ISBN 9780674053564 (electronic book)
0674053567 (electronic book)
9780674035409 (alkaline paper)
0674035402 (alkaline paper)