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基本説明
In The Earwig's Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of the antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world.
Full 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.
Contents
The Beasts * The Aerodynamically Unsound Bumble Bee * The Brain-Boring Earwig * The California Tongue Cockroach * The Domesticated Crab Louse * The Extinction-Prevention Bee * The Filter-Lens Fly * The Genetically Modified Frankenbug * The Headless Cockroach * The Iraqi Camel Spider * The Jumping Face Bug * The Kissing Bug * The "Locust" * The Mate-Eating Mantis * The Nuclear Cockroach * The Olympian Flea * The Prognosticating Woollyworm * The Queen Bee * The Right-Handed Ant * The Sex-Enhancing Spanishfly * The Toilet Spider * The Unslakable Mosquito * The Venomous Daddylonglegs * The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly * The X-ray Induced Giant Insect * The Yogurt Beetle * The Zapper Bug
