Of all the creatures exemplifying Batesian mimicry, few are better known to naturalists than hoverflies. Looking for all they’re worth like bees or wasps, these harmless and beautiful little members of the diptera are fascinating subjects of study.
This most recent addition to the superb Princeton Pocket Guide series provides information on all the world’s 501 species of shark and should provide hours of both informative reading as well as browsing for both the casual and the serious naturalist alike.
In honor of the University of Oregon Ducks playing the Ohio State Buckeyes in the inaugural college football championship, I thought it might be fun to extend the friendly rivalry into the sphere of natural history books.
The past few years have seen quite an increase in the amount of attention given to the state of honeybee populations around the world – and with good reason, for without their work in pollinating a sizable portion of the world’s food plants (as well as a host of other ones as well) much of […]