Balcombe, Jonathan P.
Summary: "For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.77 BALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.77 BALBalcombe, Jonathan P.
Summary: Balcombe challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016