Enter a hidden world of snail killers, silly names and crazy sex lives in The Secret Life of Flies.
In The Secret Life of Flies entomologist Erica McAlister gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she ventures into the land of the fly. From hungry herbivores and precocious pollinators to robber flies, danceflies and the much maligned mosquito, she describes the different types of fly, their unique and often unusual characteristics, and the unpredictable nature of their daily life.
Erica travels from the drawers of wonder at the Natural History Museum, London to the mountains of Peru, via underground caves, smelly latrines and the English country garden. She discovers flies without wings, eyes on stalks, rotating genitalia and the terrible hairy fly, while pausing along the way to consider today's key issues of conservation, taxonomy, forensic entomology and climate change.
Combining her deep knowledge and love of flies with a wonderful knack for storytelling, Erica McAlister allows us to peer
amazed and captivated
into the secret life of flies.
By:
Erica McAlister Imprint: CSIRO Publishing Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 200mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 392g ISBN:9781486308026 ISBN 10: 1486308023 Pages: 256 Publication Date:01 April 2017 Audience:
General/trade
,
Professional and scholarly
,
ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Immature Ones (Maggots) Chapter 3 The Pollinators Chapter 4 The Detritivores (feeders on dead material) Chapter 5 The Coprohages (dung/faeces eaters) Chapter 6 The Necrophages (feeders on dead animals) Chapter 7 The Vegetarians Chapter 8 The Fungi Feeders Chapter 9 The Predators Chapter 10 The Parasites Chapter 11 The Sanguivores Chapter 12 The End
