The Earwig’s Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged LegendsHarvard University Press, 2009年9月30日 - 194 頁 Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books—at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda. |
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The BrainBoring Earwig | 9 |
The California Tongue Cockroach | 15 |
The Domesticated Crab Louse | 24 |
The ExtinctionPrevention Bee | 29 |
The FilterLens Fly | 37 |
The Genetically Modified Frankenbug | 44 |
The Headless Cockroach | 51 |
The Iraqi Camel Spider | 57 |
The Queen Bee | 112 |
The RightHanded Ant | 118 |
The SexEnhancing Spanishfly | 124 |
The Toilet Spider | 130 |
The Unslakable Mosquito | 136 |
The Venomous Daddylonglegs | 140 |
The WingFlapping Chaos Butterfly | 146 |
The XrayInduced Giant Insect | 152 |
The Jumping Face Bug | 67 |
The Kissing Bug | 74 |
The MateEating Mantis | 83 |
The Locust | 89 |
The Nuclear Cockroach | 96 |
The Olympian Flea | 102 |
The Prognosticating Woollyworm | 107 |
The Yogurt Beetle | 159 |
The Zapper Bug | 164 |
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Acknowledgments | 181 |
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