Small creatures and ordinary places : essays on nature / Allen M. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Allen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2000.

Summary:

Small Creatures and Ordinary Places reveals to us the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny dwellers in our own backyards. Young, a renowned expert on butterflies and cicadas of the American tropics, records in these charming essays his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through an urban woods near the Lake Michigan shore, or sits on his deck facing his backyard, or gazes at a field of corn stubble in autumn. He invites us to venture into our own yards, neighborhood parks, fields, and forests and pause there... to look and to listen. Small creatures have unique and interesting stories to tell us, Young points out. Their brief life cycles illustrate the intricate workings of a bigger clock driving the seasons, and they dominate the larger web of life in which humans are but a strand. Far too often they are ignored, taken for granted, reviled, or misunderstood. Even now, Young writes, as we move into a new millennium as a species and the technological pace of our existence further quickens, we can gain much from appreciating nature close at hand, despite how steadily it is being pushed aside.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Spring""; ""Mourning Cloaks""; ""Spring Peepers""; ""Summer""; ""Monarch Butterflies""; ""Annual Cicadas""; ""Paper Wasps""; ""Firefly Magic""; ""Bat Plays""; ""Green Darners""; ""Autumn""; ""True Katydids""; ""Hard Frost""; ""A Withered Patch of Wild.owers""; ""Winter""; ""Between Cornfield and Forest""; ""Cocooning""; ""A Royal Oak""; ""Winter Moon""; ""Commencement""; ""Bibliography""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217).

ISBN:

9786612764080

9781282764088

128276408X

9780299169633

0299169634

OCLC:

927483635