EAN: 9780520383005

HOW NOT TO BE EATEN - THE INSECTS FIGHT BACK - ...

All animals must eat. But who eats who  and why  or why not? Because insects outnumber and
collectively outweigh all other animals combined  they comprise the largest amount of animal
food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful
disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps  predatory insects have devised ingenious
and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding  mimicry  escape
and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates
that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central?perhaps the central?aspect
of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects
avoid becoming a meal for a predator  and the ways in which predators evade their defensive
strategies  Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting
coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

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