商品簡介
The puns are delicious, and apparently so are the subjects. Turpin (entomology, Purdue U.), founder of the famous "Bug Bowl," in which the aforesaid critters pull tractors and serve as both appetizer and entrée, notes that bugs have been on earth about 350 times longer than humans. He explores the relationships between them, including the service of bugs in medicine (maggots, anyone?) and the propensity of the humans to keep bugs as pets, then follows with short observations neatly arrayed as lepidoptera (why a moth is not a butterfly), hymenoptera (dancing bees, picnicking ants and talented hornets), diptera (deer flies are not dear flies), and various homoptera, isoptera and even an orthoptera or two. He offers a collection on insect biology (some are schizophrenic but good at striptease) and another on ecology. The result is accessible, informative, and just slightly crunchy. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University's "Bug Bowl," a celebration of insect antics that annually draws more than 12,000 visitors who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling creepy crawlers at Roach Hill Downs. He is a professor of entomology at Purdue's College of Agriculture.
