Hidden Kingdom - The Insect Life of Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki is Associate Director of the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, and Research Associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He is the author of The Smaller Majority and Relics and photographer of A Window on Eternity by E. O. Wilson. E. O. Wilson is Faculty Emeritus Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author most recently of Half-Earth, and his books The Ants and On Human Nature were both Pulitzer Prize winners.

List of contents

Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What is This?

2. Is It Dangerous?

3. Horns, Spines, and Claws

4. Masters of Deception

5. Warning Signs

6. Sounds of the Forest

7. Living Together

8. Moths and Butterflies

Photo Credits

Index

About the Author

About the author

Piotr Naskrecki. foreword by Edward O. Wilson

Summary

Encounter some of the most beautiful creatures in Costa Rica in Piotr Naskrecki’s Hidden Kingdom. This book is a visual journey into the world of the insects and their relatives that dominate all terrestrial habitats in Costa Rica through their sheer numbers, biomass, and the ecological functions they perform. Naskrecki’s stunning photographs...

Product details

• Authors: Piotr Naskrecki, Piotr (Research Associate and Associate Director Naskrecki
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781501704710
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0471-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 256 mm x 256 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Zona Tropical Publications; Zona Tropical Publications
• Subject: Guides > Nature