The Entomologist

The Entomologist
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385558964

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799

A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799
Author: Arthur A. Lisney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1960
Genre: Lepidoptera
ISBN:

A bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.

The Flowering of Ecology

The Flowering of Ecology
Author: Kay Etheridge
Publisher: Emergence of Natural History
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789004284791

The Flowering of Ecology presents an English translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 1679 'caterpillar' book, Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumen-Nahrung. Her processes in making the book and an analysis of its scientific content are presented in a historical context. Merian raised insects for five decades, recording the food plants, behavior and ecology of roughly 300 species. Her most influential invention was an 'ecological' composition in which the metamorphic cycles of insects (usually moths and butterflies) were arrayed around plants that served as food for the caterpillars. Kay Etheridge analyzes the 1679 caterpillar book from the viewpoint of a biologist, arguing that Merian's study of insect interactions with plants, the first of its kind, was a formative contribution to natural history.