Spineless Wonders Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World

We humans have a word for the feeling, whether actual or imagined, that creepy invertebrates are crawling over our skin. That word is formication, and the implied sense of horror and fascination, contends Richard Conniff, is something many of us actually crave. His Spineless Wonders presents an "unabashed wallow in the joy of formication." Spineless Wonders is an engaging, sophisticated, and humorous mix of natural history and human lore. Through his journalistic assignments, Richard Conniff has been in contact with invertebrates for more than twenty years - tarantulas in the upper Amazon region, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Discoveries about the extraordinary habits and idiosyncrasies of the moth, the leech, the ant, and the slime eel are opening new frontiers in the exploration of our natural universe. Spineless Wonders takes us directly to these wild and wonderful outposts to observe the hazards of being around invertebrates, the bizarre adaptions that enable them to survive in the world, and also the astonishing work they do - work that enables us to survive.

המשפט הראשון: Though I have been killing them for years now, I have never tested the notion, recorded in one collection of country sayings, that with a little cream and sugar, a fly " tastes very much like a black raspberry."

שנה

1998

שפה

English

הוצאה

Owl Publishing Company

מהדורות

8

עמודים

256

ISBN

9780805055313

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata