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Fireflies, Honey, and Silk

Fireflies, Honey, and Silk

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  • Gilbert Waldbauer
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback
  • 9780520268074
  • 7.7 X 5.84 X 0.66 inches
  • 0.74 pounds
  • Nature > Animals - General
  • English
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The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertaining exploration of the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives-culturally, economically, and aesthetically. Entomologist and writer Gilbert Waldbauer describes in loving, colorful detail how many of the valuable products insects have given us are made, how they were discovered, and how they have been used through time and across cultures. Along the way, he takes us on a captivating ramble through many far-flung corners of history, mythology, poetry, literature, medicine, ecology, forensics, and more. Enlivened with personal anecdotes from Waldbauer's distinguished career as an entomologist, the book also describes surprising everyday encounters we all experience that were made possible by insects. From butterfly gardens and fly-fishing to insects as jewelry and sex pheromones, this is an eye-opening ode to the wonder of insects that illuminates our extraordinary and essential relationship with the natural world.
Fireflies, Honey, and Silk

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Gilbert P. Waldbauer (1928- ) served as Professor of Entomology (1960-1995) at the University of Illinois. He studied agricultural pests, pest management, mimicry, and insect mating but he also wrote books on biology and entomology for the general public. Throughout his career Professor Waldbauer worked internationally as a researcher and government consultant.

Gilbert P. Waldbauer was born on April 18, 1928, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  He served in the U.S. Army Honor Guard to General Douglas MacArthur from 1946 to 1947, and was stationed in Tokyo, Japan, during this time.  Upon returning to the U.S., Waldbauer completed his Bachelor of Science degree in entomology in 1953 at the University of Massachusetts.  He then earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1956 and 1960, respectively.

Waldbauer served as a professor of entomology (1960-1995). He toured the country speaking about natural history for the Massachusetts Conservation Council (1952-1953). He was an associate member of the Center of Zoonoses Research (1963-1964) and a research affiliate in entomology at the Illinois State Natural History Survey (1970). Internationally, he was a visiting scientist at the Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario in Palmira, Columbia (1971); a senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (1978-1979); and a USAID consultant to the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council in Islamabad, Pakistan (1985).

Professor Waldbauer is nationally and internationally recognized for his research into the adaptive significance of individual and group behavior among insects, including cecropia moths, bean leaf beetles, whiteflies, South American stink bugs, and corn earworms.  During his career, Waldbauer authored and co-authored more than 100 academic articles. He also served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation, and he was awarded grants from U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Geographic Society for his research on agricultural pests and pest management.

Since his retirement, Waldbauer has published several popular science books, including Insects through the Seasons (1996), The Handy Bug Answer Book (1998), Birder's Bug Book  (1998), Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers (2000), What Good are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life (2003), Insights from Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us (2005), A Walk around the Pond: Insects in and over the Water (2006), and How Not to Be Eaten (2012).

 

 

Source: University of Illinois Archives 

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