Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live /

Dunn, Rob R.,

Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live / Rob Dunn. - First edition. - vii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: homo indoorus -- Wonder -- The hot spring in the basement -- Seeing in the dark -- Absence as a disease -- Bathing in a stream of life -- The problem with abundance -- The far sighted ecologist -- What good is a camel cricket? -- The problem with cockroaches is us -- Look what the cat dragged in -- Gardening the bodies of babies -- The flavor of biodiversity.

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements.

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2018015934


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