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The Stick Insect: World’s Longest Insect (Animal Record Breakers)

Author: Joy Paige
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: insect, breakers, record, longest, world
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2002-08
List price: $21.25
ISBN-10: 0823959635
ISBN-13: 9780823959631

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Insect Mechanics and Control, Volume 34: Advances in Insect Physiology

Authors:Jerome Casas, Stephen Simpso,
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: insect, physiology, advances, control, mechanics, volume
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2008-01-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0123737141
ISBN-13: 9780123737144

Insects have much to offer when it comes to designing engineering solutions to problems, whether for robotics, aeronautics, computing or materials science. Insect Mechanics and Control, the first book ever published on this topic, bringing together world experts working at the interface between entomology, engineering and physics to showcase the exciting research in this rapidly growing field. The authors, applied mathematicians, physicists or quantitative biologists, provide coverage of their subjects in a way that uses the minimum necessary technical detail, making the subject accessible to

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What is an Insect?

Author: Robert Snedden
Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children
Keywords: insect
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 087156923X
ISBN-13: 9780871569233

What makes an insect and insect or a mammal a mammal? Within each class of animals there is astonishing variety, yet all the members share some characteristics unique to that class. The ungainly ostrich, the tiny hummingbird, the soaring eagle, and the flightless penguin - all are very different, yet all share characteristics that define them as birds. Fish come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, too, from the great white shark to the tiny seahorse. What do they have in common, and what makes them distinct from animals of other classes? The "What Is" series of books solves the puzzle

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Insect Conservation and Islands

Author: Tim R. New
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: islands, conservation, insect
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-07-22
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402087810
ISBN-13: 9781402087813

A series of original papers and reviews dealing with the peculiarities of island insects and their conservation in many parts of the world. Contributions to this special issue of Journal of Insect Conservation range from biogeographical analyses and ecological features of island insects and their evolution to the variety of concerns for their wellbeing, and practical conservation through a variety of, sometimes novel, approaches. They provide a valuable and up-to-date resource for entomologists and conservation practitioners.