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A walk around the pond : insects in and over the water / Gilbert Waldbauer ; [illustrations by Meredith Waterstraat].
- Title
- A walk around the pond : insects in and over the water / Gilbert Waldbauer ; [illustrations by Meredith Waterstraat].
- Author
- Waldbauer, Gilbert.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Waterstraat, Meredith.
- Description
- 286 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the insects that have colonized aquatic environments in North America and worldwide, and discusses how they cope with their environment's challenges to vision, reproduction, thermoregulation, and respiration.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-270) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A first look -- Who's who in the water -- Where they believe -- The breath of life -- Finding food and eating -- Going places -- The next generation -- On being eaten -- How not to be eaten -- Coping with the climate -- Our friends and enemies -- Selected readings -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0674022114 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005044737
- OCLC
- 61859880
- SCSB-12216390
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library