Insect Architecture
How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World
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Product details:
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date of Publication 9 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780691275239
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 254x203 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 150 color illus. 804
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Long description:
The essential illustrated guide to the ingenious techniques that insects use to construct an astounding array of natural structures, from nests to shelters to traps
Insect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses on a group of insect architects, describing the materials and methods they use while exploring the structures themselves in detail. Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, this is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.
- Features a wealth of color photos, explanatory diagrams and blueprints, step-by-step sequences, and visual spreads
- Covers all major groups of insect architects and the broad array of structures they build
- Explains how anatomy, life cycle, and habitat are the ingredients to extraordinary creations
- Profiles the insect world’s most accomplished builders—from beetles, bees, and cicadas to moths, wasps, ants, and termites
- Discusses the ecological impacts of insect architecture
- Reveals how insect builders have inspired human design innovations
"This book is about as fascinating a read as you will ever have, even if you never gave a thought to the lives of insects before. . . . You simply cannot fail to be impressed with it all and not a little gobsmacked along the way."---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds More
