Biggest Bugs Life-Size - Couverture rigide

Beccaloni, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1554076994 ISBN 13 : 9781554076994

Editeur : Firefly Books Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Beccaloni George

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Big Bugs Life-size is the first book to feature life-size photographs of the world's largest and most spectacular bugs. It establishes for the first time which of the world's bug species are the heaviest, the longest, and have the greatest wingspan. Discover the record-breaking stick insect which is almost as long as your arm, a cockroach with the wingspan of a cereal bowl and come face to face with a fly as big as your eye. The book gives all the essential facts about the world's biggest minibeasts, including where they live and what they eat. Everything known about the biology, ecology and distribution of each species is summarised and much of this information has never been compiled before. Did you know that the world's largest millipede is the length of a strand of spaghetti? Or that one of the longest beetles on the planet can break a pencil with its powerful jaws? Some of these giant creepy crawlies are so rare that very few museums have specimens, and some like the giant West African antlion and Fruhstorfer s giant dobsonfly have never been illustrated in any book before. They often have fascinating stories associated with them too. Find out how war-like termite soldiers defend a nest without having eyes, and what the goliath bird-eating spider actually eats. Stunningly illustrated throughout, including a special fold-out page of the world's longest insect, Big Bugs Life-size shows just how huge these creatures really are.

Biographie de l'auteur

George Beccaloni has worked in the Natural History Museum's Entomology Department since 1996. In 2003 he became the Museum's Curator of Orthopteroid Insects (grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, stick insects and their relatives). He started collecting and studying insects at the age of ten whilst he was living in Zimbabwe. He went on to do a BSc in Zoology at Imperial College, London, and then a PhD on South American butterflies jointly at Imperial and the Natural History Museum, London. He has been fortunate enough to see nearly a quarter of the species featured in this book alive in the wild. He is the author of many popular and scientific articles, as well as four other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Firefly Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554076994
• ISBN 13: 9781554076994
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible