Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Rights, and Other Bugdacious Tales

By Tom Turpin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557534179
• ISBN13: 9781557534170
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A most enjoyable and educational browse for readers of all ages.

Written by Tom Turpin (Professor of Entomology in Purdue's College of Agriculture), Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is jam-packed with fun facts about insects - from the bug that ancient Egyptians used to worship as a god to how horseflies can fly without a head to the inordinate contribution that humble fruit flies have made to science. Flies in the Face of Fashion is divided into two-page vignettes, each enlightening the reader to another eyebrow-raising fact about insects, and is especially recommended for school and community library collections, or as a giftbook for budding entymologists. A most enjoyable and educational browse for readers of all ages.