Earwig

Author: Brian Catling
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473687136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Slender like as stiletto... a book full of sadness, madness and badness - The Spectator ___________________________________________________________________________________ A standalone novel by iconic artist and author of cult bestseller, The Vorrh Not since Edgar Allan Poe and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline evil. Earwig got his nickname from his grandfather. At the start of this story he is employed to look after a strange little girl in a flat in Liege. He spies on her, listens to her by holding a glass up to the wall. But he never touches her except when, as part of his duties, he is required to is to make teeth of ice and insert them in her gums. Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au Metro, a seedy bar full of drunks, dancers and eccentrics. It is St Martin's day and in the evening as crowds parade through the street carrying lanterns through the snow, he is drawn reluctantly into a conversation with a sinister stranger called Tyre. As a result Earwig accidentally maims a waitress with a broken bottle. He understands that on some level Tyre meant this to happen. Shortly afterwards a black cat is delivered to the flat, unasked for. The girl forms an immediate bond with it, but Earwig identifies it as the enemy. Travelling across country by train, transporting the girl and her black cat, Earwig is increasingly caught up in a web of unfortunate and increasingly violent coincidences.

The Earwig’s Tail

Author: May R. Berenbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674053567
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books—at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda. In The Earwig’s Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world. Berenbaum’s compendium of tales is an alphabetical tour of modern myths that humorously illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. She tracks down the germ of scientific truth that inspires each insect urban legend and shares some wild biological lessons, which, because of the amazing nature of the insect world, can be more fantastic than even the mythic misperceptions.

Earwig and the Witch

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062075144
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
"I would like to declare Diana Wynne Jones an international treasure," proclaimed Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medalist and best-selling author. In this enchanting introduction to Diana Wynne Jones's magical and funny work, Earwig is a fearless young orphan. When she finds herself in a house of dark magic, she does whatever she can to adapt—especially if it means that she'll learn a little magic herself! A young middle grade novel by World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement‒winner Diana Wynne Jones, beautifully illustrated in black and white by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky. Not every orphan would love living at St. Morwald's Home for Children, but Earwig does. She gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants it, and it's been that way since she was dropped on the orphanage doorstep as a baby. But all that changes the day Bella Yaga and the Mandrake come to St. Morwald's, disguised as foster parents. Earwig is whisked off to their mysterious house full of invisible rooms, potions, and spell books, with magic around every corner. Most children would run in terror from a house like that . . . but not Earwig. Using her own cleverness—with a lot of help from a talking cat—she decides to show the witch who's boss.

Earwig

Author: Stephanie St. Pierre
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781432912505
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
An introduction to earwigs, including what they look like, how they are born, what they eat, how they grow, and where they live.

Encyclopedia of Entomology

Author: John L. Capinera
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402062421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 4346

Book Description
This text brings together fundamental information on insect taxa, morphology, ecology, behavior, physiology, and genetics. Close relatives of insects, such as spiders and mites, are included.

Insects of the Great Lakes Region

Author: Gary A. Dunn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
The most comprehensive guide to insects in the Great Lakes region

Guide to Colorado Insects

Author: Whitney Cranshaw
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781565795211
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Colorado professors and expert entomologists Whitney Cranshaw and Boris Kondratieff present a guide to finding and identifying the insects you are likely to see throughout the state. From bees to butterflies and beyond, this handy, state-specific guidebook will help insect enthusiasts to identify and learn about hundreds of Colorado's most common species. Full-color photography, fascinating facts, and a glossary of insect terms make this book visually appealing, practical, and fun for readers of all ages. With an introduction to the world of arthropods and interesting descriptions of scores of insects, Guide to Colorado Insects is a must-have whether you're at home or in the field. Book jacket.

Handbook of Biological Control

Author: T. W. Fisher
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080533019
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1073

Book Description
For many years the use of chemical agents such as pesticides and herbicides has been effective in controlling the many varieties of pests that infest both agricultural crops and backyard gardens. However, these pests are gradually becoming resistant to these agents, because the agents themselves are acting as selective factors making the pests better and better able to resist and persist. As a result, the use of biological controlling agents is increasing. This book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of biological control.

Destroy the Earwigs

Author: Bentley Ball Fulton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earwigs
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description

The Other Insect Societies

Author: James T. Costa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021631
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 824

Book Description
In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders.