Insect Architecture: How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World

Name: Insect Architecture: How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World
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An illustrated guide to the techniques that insects use to creat the natural structures, like nest , shelters and traps. It features color photos, explanatory diagrams and visual spreads.... Show more

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Authors	Michael S. Engel and Tom Jackson
Language	English
ISBN	9780691275239
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Pages	176
Size	21 x 26 cm
Format	Hardcover
Images	Color photos
Year published	2025

Insect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses on a group of insect architects, describing the materials and methods they use while exploring the structures themselves in detail. Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, this is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.

Features a wealth of color photos, explanatory diagrams and blueprints, step-by-step sequences, and visual spreads
Covers all major groups of insect architects and the broad array of structures they build
Explains how anatomy, life cycle, and habitat are the ingredients to extraordinary creations
Profiles the insect world’s most accomplished builders—from beetles, bees, and cicadas to moths, wasps, ants, and termites
Discusses the ecological impacts of insect architecture
Reveals how insect builders have inspired human design innovations

Tom Jackson is an acclaimed science writer and conservationist. His books include Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science, The Magnificent Book of Dangerous Animals, Micro Monsters, and Genetics in Minutes: 200 Key Ideas of Evolution and Biology in an Instant. He was the chief editor of Insects and Spiders of the World. Michael S. Engel is a world authority on bees and the diversity of living and extinct insects. His books include Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth and Evolution of the Insects.