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In a Desert Garden : Love and Death among the Insects
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University of Arizona Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Trouble in Paradise, and a Partial Solution; Chapter 1: How to Revolutionize a Yard: Xeriscaping and its entomological benefits; Chapter 2: The Gardener's Friends: Ladybird beetles and biocontrol; praying mantises and sexual cannibalism ; Chapter 3: Compost Lovers: How to make a desert compost heap; earwigs and their cerci; rove beetles and mate guarding; Chapter 4: Lawn Lovers: Scarab beetles and the risks they take to mate; desert termites and their nuptial flights; Chapter 5: Native Stingers: Paper wasps and one-queen rule.
- Zucchini bees and the squash they pollinate sleeping bees and their enemies; Chapter 6: Camouflage Experts: Grasshoppers and gravel mimicry; inchworms and twig mimicry; swallowtail caterpillars and bird-dropping mimicry; Chapter 7: Aliens: Whiteflies and the trouble they now cause; ""killer"" bees and the trouble they will cause; Chapter 8: Transients: Mayflies away from water; milkweed bugs on the march; Chapter 9: Parthenogens and Poison Eaters: Milkweed aphids and how to be a single mother; ""killer"" hover flies and how aphids fight back.
- Chapter 10: Paradise Regained: The return of the sleeping beesAcknowledgments; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.