How do diving beetles and gyrins breathe underwater?
How do beetles resist the cold?
This book answers these questions, and much more: it reveals the habits of some of the 20,000 species of European beetles, illustrating their surprising diversity and ecological importance.
• High-quality and often original iconography providing up-to-date observations.
• A work without equivalent in naturalist publishing of the last thirty years.
• A text of interest to entomologists and curious nature lovers alike, which allows for a better understanding of the preeminent place that these insects occupy in our environment.
Author(s): Denis Richard - Pierre-Olivier Maquart - Vincent Albouy (Preface) Details: Hardcover - Format: 15.6 cm × 21.6 cm × 2.7 cm - 304 pages Release date: 09/26/2019 Edited by: Delachaux and Niestlé