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Moths : a complete guide to biology and behavior
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25515
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Less, David C. and Zilli, Alberto
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books
- Call Number
- 04 L46m
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Moths
- Lepidoptera
- Abstract
- Moths are a crucial insect group encompassing more than 160,000 species, and they are among the most ancient of Earth's inhabitants with some fossils believed to be 190 million years old. This richly illustrated guide to their biology, evolution, and history demonstrates the incredible diversity of these winged insects and reveals the ruthless survival tactics used by some--including blood-sucking moths, cannibalism in the cocoon, and carnivorous caterpillars. The book also explores their extraordinary life cycle, charting development from egg to larva to cocoon to airborne adult, as well as the surprising variations of color and wing patterns that moths have evolved. Engaging narrative and specially commissioned photographs of moth specimens make Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior a perfect gift book for scientists and science enthusiasts alike. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Introduction: What is a moth? ; Blueprint for success ; Becoming a moth ; A matter of taste ; Mating ; Moth warfare ; Diversity and distribution ; Evolution in action ; Of moths and man
- ISBN
- 9781588346544
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04 L46m
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Inhabited : wildness and the vitality of the land
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25571
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness suggests a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.-- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Vitality and Relationality ;Ecological Heritage ; Interlude: Fog ; Entanglement ; Intensity ; Inhabitation ; Interlude: Bear Spray ; Atmosphere ; Interlude: The Lonsome Loon ; Exhaustion ; Interlude : NOT Alone ; Aliveness ; Sacred Ways of Life
- ISBN
- 9780228008965
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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