The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior - Hardcover

Howard E. Evans; Kevin M. O'Neill

 
9780674024625: The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674024621 ISBN 13: 9780674024625
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Howard Ensign Evans was a brilliant ethologist and systematist for whom the joy of science included lying on his belly in some remote location, digging out and diagramming a wasp’s nest. During his career, Evans described over 900 species and authored more than a dozen books, both technical and popular, on a wide range of entomological and natural history subjects. Upon his death in 2002, he left behind an unfinished manuscript, intended as an update (though not a revision) of his classic 1966 work, The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. Kevin O’Neill, Evans’s former student and coauthor, has completed and enlarged Evans’s manuscript to provide coverage of all sand-wasp tribes in Evan’s earlier book. The result is a tribe-by-tribe, species-by-species review of studies of the Bembicinae that have appeared over the last four decades.

The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior already has been hailed by specialists as a new bible for those working on solitary wasps and an essential reference for scientists more broadly interested in insect behavioral evolution.

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About the Author

Howard Ensign Evans was Professor Emeritus of Entomology at Colorado State University. From 1960 to 1973, he headed Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Kevin M. O’Neill is Professor of Entomology, Montana State University, and author of Solitary Wasps: Natural History and Behavior.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674024621
ISBN 13 
9780674024625
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
360