Extraordinary Insects. Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

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      First published by J.M. Stenersens Forlag AS 2018

      This UK edition published by Mudlark 2019

      FIRST EDITION

      Text © Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson 2018

      Translation © Lucy Moffatt 2019

      This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA, Norwegian Literature Abroad

      Chapter illustrations © Tuva Sverdrup-Thygeson 2018

      Cover layout design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

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      Source ISBN: 9780008316358

      Ebook Edition © April 2019 ISBN: 9780008316389

      Version 2020-02-11

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Contents

       Chapter 2: Six-legged Sex: Dating, Mating and Parenting

       Chapter 3: Eat or Be Eaten: Insects in the Food Chain

       Chapter 4: Insects and Plants: A Never-ending Race

       Chapter 5: Busy Flies, Flavoursome Bugs: Insects and Our Food

       Chapter 6: The Circle of Life – and Death: Insects as Caretakers

       Chapter 7: From Silk to Shellac: Industries of Insects

       Chapter 8: Lifesavers, Pioneers and Nobel Prize-winners: Insights from Insects

       Chapter 9: Insects and Us: What’s Next?

       Afterword

       Thanks

       Further Reading

       Sources

       List of Searchable Terms

       About the Publisher

      Nature is nowhere as great as in its smallest creatures

      PLINY THE ELDER

      Naturalis historia 11, 1.4,

      Ca. 79 CE

       Golden ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii)

       Indian stick insect (Necroscia sparaxes)

       Spotted predatory katydid (Chlorobalius leucoviridis) eating a cicada

       Leaf-cutter ant worker

       Solitary bees

       Sawyer beetle (Prionus coriarius, ovipositing and larvae), stag beetle (Lucanus cervus,

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