Waldbauer, Gilbert

Profiles twenty insects and their interactions with humans and explains what humans can learn from studying the bugs.

Examines the insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers in North America, describing their diverse forms, modes of life, and impact on the water environment.

Explores the ecological importance of bugs, discussing how all terrestrial ecosystems on earth would be destroyed if all, or even a critical few, insects were to disappear.

Explores the ecological importance of bugs, discussing how all terrestrial ecosystems on earth would be destroyed if all, or even a critical few, insects were to disappear.

Studies the group behavior and social lives of a wide array of insects.

Contains answers to approximately one thousand frequently asked questions about insects and other bugs, providing information about the structure of insects, how their bodies function, their growth and metamorphosis, their behavior, and their place in the ecological, and economic scheme of things.

Studies the group behavior and social lives of a wide array of insects.