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The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends
- Title
- The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends / May R. Berenbaum.
- Author
- Berenbaum, M. (May)
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 194 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Alphabetically arranged entries profile modern mythical insects, revealing the scientific truths that form the basis of the outlandish tales about the insects.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Daddylonglegs -- The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly -- The X-ray-Induced Giant Insect -- The Yogurt Beetle -- The Zapper Bug.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-5629
- ISBN
- 9780674035409
- 0674035402
- LCCN
- 2009013733
- OCLC
- 316037943
- Author
- Berenbaum, M. (May)
- Title
- The earwig's tail : a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends / May R. Berenbaum.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN. DISCUSSES ANECDOTES, URBAN LEGENDS, ETC.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-5629