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Waldbauer Tells Us How Individuals In Insect Aggregations Communicate (or Don't), How They Coordinate Their Efforts, How Some Congregate The Better To Mate, How Some Groups Improve The Temperature And Humidity Of Their Microenvironment, And How Others Safeguard Themselves (or The Future Of Their Kind) By Amassing In Such Vast Numbers As To Confound Predators.--jacket. Strength In Numbers -- Bunches Of Beetles -- Warding Off Predators -- Millions Of Monarchs -- Teams Of Tent Caterpillars -- Controlling The Climate -- Coinciding With Resources -- Subduing Food -- Legions Of Locusts -- People And Insect Plagues -- Finding A Mate -- Myriads Of Mayflies -- Swarms Of Cicadas -- Associating With Other Species. Gilbert Waldbauer. Includes Bibliographical References.

Author

Waldbauer, Gilbert

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674000902

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Nature