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| Amazing Insects: Images of Fascinating Creatures | 
| Author: Michael Chinery
Creator: David Bellamy Obe
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 100168
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1554073529
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7
EAN: 9781554073528
ASIN: 1554073529
Publication Date: January 18, 2008
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Product Description
New photographic technologies reveal insects as never seen before. Insects are the largest and most diverse group of animals, yet their world is often hidden. This spectacular book provides a rare and intimate view of the bizarre beauty of many overlooked creatures and their habitats. Michael Chinery describes the natural science of insects -- their life cycles, camouflage and defense, predators and prey, and habitats. Over 250 spectacular color photographs, many taken in the wild by the author, use scanning electron micrograph (SEM) technology at super-magnifications and high speed to show in astonishing detail the fantastical shapes and remarkable lives of insects from around the world. Examples are: The stalk-eyed insect, with branch-like eye "stems," each as long as its body and holding an eye at the tip An aphid in flight with its neon-orange eyes aglow The long, sickle-shaped jaws of a soldier army ant, used by some South American native groups to suture wounds The secret of one butterfly's beautiful colors as revealed in its cheese-grater wing scales The "laughing" face of a hornet. Amazing Insects is an outstanding reference, engrossing in its detail and remarkable in its wide coverage.
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Beautiful pictures, but hard-to-read type July 25, 2008
It is perplexing that a book with such amazing, clear photo and electron microscope illustrations used such small non-crisp type. It is the nature of an insect close-up to need a description to complete the picture. The book designers sacrificed text clarity for additional white space, and therefore did not do justice to the amazing photos. Have a magnifying lens on hand for the text to best enjoy this book.
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