An introduction to parasites featuring humorous illustrations. Describes how ticks, tapeworms, and other parasites live on or in the bodies of other animals.
Introduces readers to parasites through full-color photographs and easy-to-read text. Reveals facts about fleas, mites, worms, maggots, tapeworm, and beetles.
An introduction to the job of scientists who collect and study parasites. Describes how they work to save lives while examining dead animals to find parasites.
Offers a humorous inventory of all the tiny nasty things around us such as dust mites, bird droppings, mouth bacteria, fungi, and cockroaches, and explains that we must survive with them.
Explains what parasites are; describes the three basic parasite groups, including protozoa, worms, and parasitic insects and arachnids; discusses the human diseases and disorders that can be caused by parasites; and looks at ways to prevent or treat infestations.
Contains fourteen essays in which the author discusses some of nature's most loathsome plants and animals, including the European starling, the gray squirrel, the horse fly, and kudzu; and reveals the silver lining behind each of their nasty reputations.
Provides a general introduction to micro bugs, and features close-up photographs and facts about mites, body lice, nematodes, and other tiny, creepy creatures.
A fungus that controls flies? A wasp that tames cockroaches? Meet ten creatures that can take over the bodies and brains of other organisms--and turn them into senseless slaves.
As humanity battles a contagious, adapting virus that turns its hosts into violent and uncontrollable killers, scientists begin to suspect that the epidemic is controlled by an unknown central intelligence. A small group of researchers serves as humanity's last line of defense and utilizes the talents of Perry Dawsey, who has been affected by the disease yet somehow is able to sense the virus' hosts.
inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
Zimmer, Carl
2001
Studies the evolution, characteristics, and dangers of parasites and explains how parasites have triggered the development of sex, shaped ecosystems, and affected world history.
