Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mite Make Right, And Other Bugdacious Tales - Brossura

Turpin, Tom

 
9781557534170: Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mite Make Right, And Other Bugdacious Tales
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1557534179 ISBN 13: 9781557534170
Casa editrice: Purdue Univ Pr, 2006

Sinossi

If you want to get downright buggy, pick up this wonderful collection of insect tales from the "Bug Bowl" guru, Tom Turpin. After you're through, you'll know more about the six-legged kingdom and its occupants than any bookworm that you run across. How does insect suturing work? Which insect did the ancient Egyptians worship as a god? What did Ogden Nash have to say about termites? Which insect produces "Turkey Red" dye? What bug has survived for 300 million years? How does a horse fly manage to fly without its head? Each tale is easily accessible, provides fun and scientific facts, and is self-contained. Juveniles and adults alike will be fascinated with the world of Turpin's bugs. The nicely illustrated collection won't give you ants in your pants, but just might put a flea in your ear.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University s Bug Bowl, a celebration of insect antics that annually draws more than 12,000 visitors who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling creepy crawlers at Roach Hill Downs. He is a professor of entomology at Purdue s College of Agriculture.

Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University's Bug Bowl, a celebration of insect antics that annually draws more than 12,000 visitors who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling cre

Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University's "Bug Bowl," a celebration of insect antics that annually draws more than 12,000 visitors who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling creepy crawlers at Roach Hill Downs. He is a professor of entomology at Purdue's College of Agriculture.

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Editore
Purdue Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1557534179
ISBN 13 
9781557534170
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
248
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