Waldbauer | How Not to Be Eaten - The Insects Fight Back Eaten | Buch | 978-0-520-26912-5 | www.sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Waldbauer

How Not to Be Eaten - The Insects Fight Back Eaten


1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-26912-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

ISBN: 978-0-520-26912-5
Verlag: University of California Press

All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central--perhaps the central--aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldbauer, Gilbert

Fachgebiete

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Prologue

Acknowledgments

1. Insects in the Web of Life

2. The Eaters of Insects

3. Fleeing and Staying under Cover

4. Hiding in Plain Sight

5. Bird Dropping Mimicry and Other Disguises

6. Flash Colors and Eyespots

7. Safety in Numbers

8. Defensive Weapons and Warning Signals

9. The Predators' Countermeasures

10. Protection by Deception

Epilogue

Selected References

Index

Waldbauer, Gilbert
Gilbert Waldbauer is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at University of Illinois. He is the author of eight books, including Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (UC Press), A Walk around the Pond, and What Good Are Bugs?

Gilbert Waldbauer is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at University of Illinois. He is the author of eight books, including Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (UC Press), A Walk around the Pond, and What Good Are Bugs?

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