Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226332253)

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels.

No longer In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Christopher M. Buddle and Eleanor Spicer Rice metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into spider wonder. Emerging from ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University), Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders provides an eye-opening arachnological overview of the natural history of species most noted by project participants, showcasing some of the fascinating spiders found in our attics and tents, front lawns and forests--and even introducing us to spiders that fish. Exploring species from the tiny (but gymnastic) zebra jumping spider to the naturally shy and woefully misunderstood black widow, this guide will be a tremendous resource for teachers, students, and scientists alike. But more than this, it will transform the way we perceive the environment around us by deepening our understanding of its littlest inhabitants, inspiring all of us to find our inner naturalist, get outside, and crawl across the dirt--magnifying glass in hand.

Author: Christopher M. Buddle, Eleanor Spicer Rice
ISBN-10: 022633225X
ISBN-13: 9780226332253
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018