How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back

by Gilbert Waldbauer and Waldbauer

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520269128
• ISBN13: 9780520269125
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"