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The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends /

Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. In The Earwig's Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berenbaum, M. (May) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The beasts -- The aerodynamically unsound bumble bee -- The brain-boring earwig -- The California tongue cockroach -- The domesticated crab louse -- The extinction-prevention bee -- The filter-lens fly -- The genetically modified frankenbug -- The headless cockroach -- The Iraqi camel spider -- The jumping face bug -- The kissing bug -- The "locust" -- The mate-eating mantis -- The nuclear cockroach -- The Olympian flea -- The prognosticating woollyworm -- The queen bee -- The right-handed ant -- The sex-enhancing Spanishfly -- The toilet spider -- The unslakable mosquito -- The venomous daddylonglegs -- The wing-flapping chaos butterfly -- The X-ray-induced giant insect -- The yogurt beetle -- The zapper bug. 
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