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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
You might already have heard in the popular press about this disturbing trend: researchers have noticed that many insect populations are declining both in number and diversity. Although many animals have been affected by climate change and habitat loss, discover the human activities that have a disproportionate impact on insects—especially the use of pesticides.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The truth is, our planet belongs to the insects. In 24 captivating lectures beautifully illustrated with graphics, photos, and video footage, Professor Scott Solomon shares his passion for these extraordinary creatures. Why Insects Matter: Earth's Most Essential Species will open your eyes to evolutionary accomplishments you had never even imagined.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although we thought we invented agriculture, insects were using agriculture more than 50 million years before our arrival. Explore the world of the leafcutter ants; they can cut the leaves but not digest them. Instead, they feed the leaves to their fungus garden and eat the fungus, which provides them with a complete source of nutrients.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
So many animals rely on insects for food that most ecosystems would collapse without them. Birds alone consume almost 500 million metric tons of insects every year. Explore the relationship between insectivorous animals and their prey, as well as the 600 species of plants that also get in on the game. Of course, as you'll learn, the insects do not make it easy for them.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Most insects use sound to call for help and to attract a mate. With a variety of ways to produce sound, insects also have a variety of ways to hear. Consider the significance of sound for crickets, katydids, and cicadas, as well as the expansive and complex “vocabulary” of the bess beetles, with one species that uses 14 sounds to communicate among family members.
86) Why Insects Matter: Earth's Most Essential Species: Episode 4,Insect Behaviors and Communication
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Reveal what honeybees are really communicating with their waggle dance and why specific dances are used in specific circumstances. From waggle dances to pheromones, insects have developed unique efficiencies in their communication and actions, both at the individual and group level. Scientists have been taking notice—and mimicking the insects wherever possible.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forty million years ago—long before birds, bats, or flying pterosaurs—the skies were dominated by insects. Unlike every other subsequent flying animal, insect wings did not evolve from modified limbs; insects kept all six limbs and added wings. Explore a variety of flying insects and learn the unique physiology that gives them such precise control and maneuverability in the air.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
There's a good chance insects have made themselves at home in your home. From the carpet beetles in your living room, to the silverfish in your sock drawer, to the cockroaches in the basement, they're everywhere! What should you do about them? Learn why “nothing” might be both your safest and most effective answer.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One of the most profound ways insects have affected people throughout history is by transmitting disease. The worst offender? Definitely the mosquito. Mosquitos can transmit yellow fever, malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus, Zika virus, and more. Discover the many methods we have used to try to cure this problem, and the many ways in which we've failed. But there is hope on the horizon.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn everything you need to know about starting an insect collection and making your own observations about your local environment. Discover how to start a collection of preserved insects using materials you probably already have at home. From nets to aspirators to pitfall traps, you'll have everything you need.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explore the many fascinating pairings in the coevolutionary dance between plants and insects. Step by step over millions of years, both insects and plants have developed ways to meet their own needs while increasing their value to their partners. No insects have done this better than the ants.
93) Saving Jaws
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Biologist OCEAN RAMSEY (“Shark Whisper") credits her connection with sharks to years of research, but others feel it’s something more. Join Ocean and a team of biologists as they travel the globe trying to halt their looming extinction.
95) Long Gone Wild
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Killer whales are being hunted for sale into the exploding marine theme park industry. Witness the case against captivity, the Whale Sanctuary Project, and covert missions in search of captive orcas.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Swiss German
Description
He calls himself "Catman." Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilize his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. “ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK” is a melodrama that portrays an unconventional relationship between animal and human.
Publisher
Label Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Hollywood legend Dan Aykroyd - Defend, Conserve, Protect, pits the marine conservation group, Sea Shepherd, against the Japanese whaling fleet, in an epic battle to defend the majestic Minke whales of the Southern Ocean. At the helm of Sea Shepherd is 28-year old Captain Peter Hammarstedt who carries with him the resolve of Melville's Captain Ahab - only Hammarstedt hunts the whaling ships not the whales.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
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