- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- Year: 2024
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 462pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781838934774
- Product code: 546798
Planet Insect
How Insects Conquered the Earth
Steve Nicholls New Paperback Illustrated
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Insects evolved 485 million years ago, were the first creatures to fly some 419 million years ago, and now comprise a million species. Entomologist Steve Nicholls describes the different orders, including lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) and coleoptera (beetles) as well as their lifecycles, reproduction and survival strategies; their relationship with plants; and their vital role in pollination and recycling waste.
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Insects are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived: they comprise a million species and perhaps 10 quintillion individuals. Much of life on earth depends on the activities of these busy, teeming arthropods, from pollination to the breaking down of waste matter.
Each chapter of Planet Insect centres on one or more of the traits of insect life that have allowed them to hold dominion over the earth's terrestrial and freshwater environments for so long, from their staggering reproductive ability to their complex partnership with flowering plants. Planet Insect offers a winning fusion of glorious imagery and fine biological writing by an entomological specialist who writes both entertainingly and with authentic scientific rigour - and who also happens to be a very gifted nature photographer.
Each chapter of Planet Insect centres on one or more of the traits of insect life that have allowed them to hold dominion over the earth's terrestrial and freshwater environments for so long, from their staggering reproductive ability to their complex partnership with flowering plants. Planet Insect offers a winning fusion of glorious imagery and fine biological writing by an entomological specialist who writes both entertainingly and with authentic scientific rigour - and who also happens to be a very gifted nature photographer.
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Insects evolved 485 million years ago, were the first creatures to fly some 419 million years ago, and now comprise a million species. Entomologist Steve Nicholls describes the different orders, including lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) and coleoptera (beetles) as well as their lifecycles, reproduction and survival strategies; their relationship with plants; and their vital role in pollination and recycling waste.
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