The secret life of flies / Erica McAlister
- Author
- McAlister, Erica, 1973-
- Published
- Clayton South, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Physical Description
- 248 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Additional Creators
- CSIRO (Australia) and Natural History Museum (London, England)
- Contents
- Introduction -- The immature ones -- The pollinators -- The detritivores -- The coprophages -- The necrophages -- The vegetarians -- The fungivores -- The predators -- The parasites -- The sanguivores --- The end.
- Summary
- Enter a hidden world of snail killers, silly names and crazy sex lives in The Secret Life of Flies.In The Secret Life of Flies entomologist Erica McAlister gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she ventures into the land of the fly. From hungry herbivores and precocious pollinators to robber flies, danceflies and the much maligned mosquito, she describes the different types of fly, their unique and often unusual characteristics, and the unpredictable nature of their daily life. Erica travels from the drawers of wonder at the Natural History Museum, London to the mountains of Peru, via underground caves, smelly latrines and the English country garden. She discovers flies without wings, eyes on stalks, rotating genitalia and the terrible hairy fly, while pausing along the way to consider today's key issues of conservation, taxonomy, forensic entomology and climate change. Combining her deep knowledge and love of flies with a wonderful knack for storytelling, Erica McAlister allows us to peer - amazed and captivated - into the secret life of flies.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781486308026
9781770858091
1486308023 - Note
- "First published by the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2017
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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