Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiders
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Flying Spider
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiders
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiders
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Some Observations on the Mental Powers of Spiders
Author: George Williams Peckham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Spiders
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130628
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"...bright illustrations and simple text, pleasantly presented in read-along form, should be welcomed by budding entomologists." -School Library Journal
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130628
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"...bright illustrations and simple text, pleasantly presented in read-along form, should be welcomed by budding entomologists." -School Library Journal
Spider Webs
Author: William Eberhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653474X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653474X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
God is a Communicative Being
Author: William M. Schweitzer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567195228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567195228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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The Observing Eye; Or, Letters to Children on the Three Lowest Divisions of Animal Life, the Radiated, Articulated, & Molluscous. [With Illustrations.]
Author: Eye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Spiders
Author: Lynne Kelly
Publisher: Jacana Books
ISBN: 9781741751796
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores the physical characteristics and behavior of spiders, discusses their role in myth and legend, provides an illustrated guide to spider-watching, and offers tips on conquering arachnophobia.
Publisher: Jacana Books
ISBN: 9781741751796
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores the physical characteristics and behavior of spiders, discusses their role in myth and legend, provides an illustrated guide to spider-watching, and offers tips on conquering arachnophobia.
The observing eye; or, Letters to children on the three lowest divisions of animal life, by the author of 'Passover feasts and Scripture sacrifices'.
Author: Anne Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Spider Communication
Author: Peter N. Witt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400857511
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Concentrating on the complex spider communication system, this book assembles the most recent multidisciplinary advances of leading researchers from many countries to assess the peculiar role spiders play in the animal kingdom. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400857511
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Concentrating on the complex spider communication system, this book assembles the most recent multidisciplinary advances of leading researchers from many countries to assess the peculiar role spiders play in the animal kingdom. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Of Insects
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976790808
Category : Spider webs
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976790808
Category : Spider webs
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description