The Hot-blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation

The Hot-blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation
ISBN-10
0674408381
ISBN-13
9780674408388
Category
Science
Pages
601
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Bernd Heinrich

Description

Heinrich, author of Bumblebee Ecology (Harvard, 1979) presents an overview of what is now known about thermoregulation in all of the major insect groups, illustrated by his own detailed sketches. By describing the environmental opportunities and challenges faced by moths and butterflies, grasshoppers and locusts, dungball rollers and other beetles, a wide range of bees, and other insects, Heinrich explains their remarkable variety of physiological and behavioral adaptations to what, for them, is a world of violent extremes of temperature. A must for biologists, but also accessible to informed readers interested in general science. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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