The Resource Endless forms : the secret world of wasps, Seirian Sumner
Endless forms : the secret world of wasps, Seirian Sumner
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The item Endless forms : the secret world of wasps, Seirian Sumner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioral ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Wasps get a bad rap, but there may no other earthly creature guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Wasps are the bees' evolutionary ancestors - and are just as essential for the survival of our environment. Wasps taught us how to make paper, and their sophisticated social networks are the best model we have for earth's major evolutionary transitions. The author shows that in their understudied biology are clues to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer. Their secrets have gone mostly untapped - but the potential of the wasp, and the form it takes, is endless. -- Adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso
- Contents
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- The problem with wasps
- The obsessions of wasp whisperers
- How to have a social life
- Playing the game
- Dinner with Aristotle
- Nature's pest controllers
- The secret pollinators
- A future with wasps
- Isbn
- 9780063029927
- Label
- Endless forms : the secret world of wasps
- Title
- Endless forms
- Title remainder
- the secret world of wasps
- Statement of responsibility
- Seirian Sumner
- Title variation
- Secret world of wasps
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioral ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Wasps get a bad rap, but there may no other earthly creature guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Wasps are the bees' evolutionary ancestors - and are just as essential for the survival of our environment. Wasps taught us how to make paper, and their sophisticated social networks are the best model we have for earth's major evolutionary transitions. The author shows that in their understudied biology are clues to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer. Their secrets have gone mostly untapped - but the potential of the wasp, and the form it takes, is endless. -- Adapted from jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sumner, Seirian
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wasps
- Wasps
- Wasps
- Entomology
- Wasps
- Wasps
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
- Entomology
- Wasps
- Wasps
- Wasps
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Endless forms : the secret world of wasps, Seirian Sumner
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-365) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The problem with wasps -- The obsessions of wasp whisperers -- How to have a social life -- Playing the game -- Dinner with Aristotle -- Nature's pest controllers -- The secret pollinators -- A future with wasps
- Control code
- 1275427675
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780063029927
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 520
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1275427675
- Label
- Endless forms : the secret world of wasps, Seirian Sumner
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-365) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The problem with wasps -- The obsessions of wasp whisperers -- How to have a social life -- Playing the game -- Dinner with Aristotle -- Nature's pest controllers -- The secret pollinators -- A future with wasps
- Control code
- 1275427675
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780063029927
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 520
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1275427675
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