The Hot-Blooded Insects : : Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation / / Bernd Heinrich.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (601 p.) :; 101 halftones, 173 line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- ONE. Night–Flying Moths
- TWO. Butterflies and Wings
- THREE. Dragonflies Now and Then
- FOUR. Grasshoppers and Other Orthoptera
- FIVE. Beetles Large and Small
- SIX. Bumblebees out in the Cold
- SEVEN. Tropical Bees
- EIGHT. Hot–Headed Honeybees
- NINE. The Tolerance of Ants
- TEN. Wasps and the Heat of Battle
- ELEVEN. Flies of All Kinds
- TWELVE. Sweating Cicadas
- THIRTEEN. Warm Caterpillars and Hot Maggots
- FOURTEEN. Fever
- FIFTEEN. Cold Jumpers
- SIXTEEN. Social Thermoregulation
- Summary
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Authors Cited
- General Index