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Insights from Insects.


Insights From Insects

Gilbert Waldbauer

Prometheus Books

59 John Glenn Dr., Amherst, NY 14228

www.prometheusbooks.com

1591022770 $18.00 1-800-421-0351

From casual readers who enjoy natural history and bugs to students at the high school and college levels, Insights From Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us provides a delightful compendium com·pen·di·um  
n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a
1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.

2. A list or collection of various items.
 of insect facts. Twenty chapters on twenty insects move from swallowtail butterflies swallowtail butterfly

Any of more than 500 species (genus Papilio, family Papilionidae) of butterflies found worldwide except in the Arctic. Some have tail-like extensions of the hind wing.
 to moths This is an incomplete list of species of Lepidoptera that are commonly known as moths. Large and dramatic moth species
  • Death's-head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos
  • Luna Moth Actias luna
  • Atlas moth Attacus atlas
 and worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center.  as they provide fun facts and natural history.
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