Author: Alexander WetmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balsam fir
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Termites, Or "white Ants", in the United States
Author: Alexander WetmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balsam fir
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Termites, Or "white Ants", in the United States
Author: Thomas Elliott SnyderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Termites
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Underbug
Author: Lisa MargonelliPublisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712387
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects. Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite’s properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others—unearthing disquieting answers about the world’s most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Author: Engineering News-record
Author: Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Author: Indiana Academy of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Life Histories of North American Diving Birds
Author: Arthur Cleveland BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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"White Ants" as Pests in the United States and Methods of Preventing Their Damage
Author: Thomas Elliott SnyderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Termites
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
"Damage by white ants is serous to may classes of crude and finished forest products. These insect are especially injurious to foundation timbers and woodwork of buildings and to material stored therein. Damage to timber in contact with the ground is especially serious in the south. The woodwork of buildings can be protected from attack of white ants by proper construction and these insects can be eliminated where already established."--[2].
Subterranean Termites
Author: Raymond Alexander St. GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Citrus Industry
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citrus fruit industry
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description