Secret Weapons Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives--arthropods--nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this fo...

 The Fire Ants

Walter Tschinkel's passion for fire ants has been stoked by over thirty years of exploring the rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta's biology. Since South American fire ants arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1940s, they have spread to become one of the...

 The Smaller Majority

In over 400 spectacular, full-Color photographs, Piotr Naskrecki brings us eye to eye with the smaller majority-the 99 percent ot animal lite that are smaller than a human finger. Those featured in the book live in threatened biodiversity hotspots around ...