The Earwigs Tail

Klappentext Throughout the Middle Ages! enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals! typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. This compendium of tales offers an alphabetical tour of modern myths that illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees! ear-boring earwigs! and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. Zusammenfassung In the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. Entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world.

Autorentext
May R. Berenbaum is Professor and Head, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Klappentext
Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. This compendium of tales offers an alphabetical tour of modern myths that illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies.

Inhalt
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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