Jungle Bugs: Masters of Camouflage and Mimicry
During roughly 400 million years on this planet, one million species of insects have developed with a great diversity of shape and color to protect them from predators.\ Bruce Purser spent years traveling through tropical forests studying insects and photographing their ongoing quest for survival as they blended into tree trunks and imitated sticks, leaves, other bugs, and even bird droppings. Taken in exotic locales including French Guyana, the Peruvian Amazon, Malaysia, Kenya, Morocco, and...
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An illustrated, with thoughtful commentary, look at the sophisticated techniques and behaviors insects have evolved to protect themselves from predators -- the product of a lifetime spent in exotic locals.
\ Booklist\ - Nancy Bent\ Reveals the amazing ways insects hide from their predators ... beautifully illustrated with the author's photos.\ \ \ \ \ \ Chicago Sun Newspapers\ - Linda Piwowarczyk\ Purser's text and 300 dramatic color photos offer entertaining content for the curious adult.\ \ \ \ Choice\ - K. Fescemyer\ The most beautiful entomological photographs that this reviewer has seen in 12 years as an entomologist and 15 years as a librarian ... This unique treasure is the result of more than 30 years of entomological photography ... text is clearly written ... an excellent addition to any library. Summing Up: Essential.\ \ \ \ \ \ Science Books and Films\ - Paul P. Shubeck\ Excellent comparisons between insect camouflage and mimicry... superb color photographs help to make reading the book a real pleasure.\ \ \
