The Earwig’s Tail : : A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends /

The Earwig’s Tail : : A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends / / May R. Berenbaum.

Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. In The Earwig's Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Berenbaum, May R.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • The Twenty-First-Century Insectiary
  • 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 Daddy longlegs
  • The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly
  • The X-ray- Induced Giant Insect The Yogurt Beetle
  • The Zapper Bug
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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