Can anyone truly love a mosquito or admire the eating habits of a flesh fly
maggot? Editors Erich Hoyt and Ted Schultz share their magnificent obsession in
Insect Lives. In a tour de force of popularisation, they bring us the finest
entomological writing, poems and drawings of the past couple of millennia.
Aristotle, Darwin (“I was disappointed in the general aspect of the Coleoptera”)
and Wallace share space with Wordsworth, Gary Larson and many others, in an
excellent, illuminating compendium whose breadth serves both as praise for the
diversity and frequent weirdness of its subjects and for the scholarship and
dedication of its authors. Published by Wiley, $27.95, ISBN
0471282774.
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