In this excerpt from "Carbon: The Book of Life" (Viking, 2025), author and environmentalist Paul Hawken delves into the world of insects and the incredible adaptations critters ... What it makes of me ...

However, the visual world of insect larvae is often quite different ... The team says that a select group of predatory larvae evolved to this adaptation. These active hunters, rather than ...

Our research studies the interactions between organisms and their abiotic, ecological and social environment. Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology ...

In the insect world things are often not what they ... Sometimes the mimicry is not visual but auditory, as in some harmless flies that emit a sound just like the buzzing of an angry bee or ...

2003). An alternative to these adaptations, utilized by omnivorous insects, is to supplement plant-derived food resources with protein-rich prey. However, in order to obtain prey items an insect ...