Broadsides from the Other Orders A Book of Bugs (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Hubbell Barbara Caruso Recorded Books Books
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Most of us think of bugs as pesky creatures we squish under our shoes or bat away with our hands. Under the microscope of Sue Hubbell's keen eye emerges an exciting world we rarely take the time to see. Author of A Country Year, Hubbell writes regularly for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Discover magazines, bringing to her delightful essays the practical veracity of a gentlewoman farmer, and the style and élan of an eccentric who has found her bliss.
Broadsides from the Other Orders A Book of Bugs (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Hubbell Barbara Caruso Recorded Books Books
I will admit to being very, very fond of insects--which is why I bought this book in the first place.I was charmed by Ms. Hubbell's observations, research and insights. Her prose exhibits a fine sensitivity to her subject matter...obvious also when she describes her own beekeeping and years-long experiments with crickets.
She's clever in her choice of subjects. No obscure bugs here! Everyone knows about butterflies, ladybugs, silverfish, dragonflies and the like. These are familiar garden, woods or pond friends (or enemies!--she includes black flies and gypsy moths). These are the little animals we all live with, that we may be curious about, that we've held in our hands and kept in our peanut butter jars. We seldom think about the details of their little bodies or their little lives, but Ms. Hubbell has managed to make them larger than life.
I'd recommend this delightful book to anybody who finds her eye drawn by the flight of a butterfly, or who finds reason to smile over a colorful ladybug.
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Broadsides from the Other Orders A Book of Bugs (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Hubbell Barbara Caruso Recorded Books Books Reviews
Not a good resource book for tying flies. Lots of reading but no colored life pictures.
This is for a friend who is into bugs, plants, animals, etc. I found this book interesting myself.
amusing, eye opening, great for adults whose children have forced them to reconsider their reaction to insects
I read almost all of this. The only chapter I skipped was the one on butterflies, 'cause they're so beautiful and boring.
Some of the material was off-putting but the material I liked compensated. I finally got fed up when the author said, at the end of the chapter about silverfish, that mankind had "modestly" altered his environment. This grotesque understatement really stuck in my craw.
The writing is very smooth and generally engaging. Very slick. A little too slick, reminds me of New Yorker magazine type of writing, which I consider a bad thing. Nevertheless, I did learn many interesting things about bugs.
More gripes a horrible chapter about the ladybug harvesting industry, a long digression about how the ancient poet Virgil advised people to generate new swarms of bees from dead cattle carcasses, a lot of trivia about taxonomic classification, efforts to engage the reader in the 'entomological adventure' and using cute little words like 'scoot' and 'chow'.
The general smug tone of, "God is in his heaven and all is right with the world", grated as well.
I was charmed by "A Book of Bees" and "A Year in the Country" when I read them about 12 years ago. I guess Hubbell's charm has worn off for me. I won't be reading any more by her.
Never met a Sue Hubbell book I didn't like. Her book, A Country Year Living the Questions, I have bought repeatedly for friends who have lost partners (breakup, divorce, death).
Anyway, it would never have occurred to me that a book on bugs would be so fascinating. Like all her books, it is about many other things than bugs. Just bought a new copy for myself since my old one walked.
For me, this is a book for the schools. Too much over my head. I did not read all of it, and it may have been more interesting in later chapters. In biology, I learned all this but have long forgotten.
Hubbell is clearly pasionate about insects and their relatives, and that passion shows in this outstanding book on invertebrates. Combining personal experience with solid entomological fact, Hubbell presents to the average reader fascinating glimpses of a number of invertebrate groups, such as water striders, dragonflies, daddy longlegs, and butterflies. Hubbell shows the life stories of these groups, the role they play in nature, and the people whose lives they affect. Whether beautiful or hideous, valuable or a pest, Hubbell shows them all to be fascinating creatures. Despite that many of them are quite common, some such as black flies too common, the authors show that mysteries still exist with these creatures, how sometimes relatively basic aspects of their lives and roles in nature are mysteries.
This book is very readable and while not too technical is filled with lots of interesting and accurate facts and a wealth of personal experience on the part of the author. If you ever wanted to know more about the butterflies in your garden, the dragonflies wizzing by you over the local lake or pond, or that daddy longlegs in the attic or toolshed, this is the book for you.
I will admit to being very, very fond of insects--which is why I bought this book in the first place.
I was charmed by Ms. Hubbell's observations, research and insights. Her prose exhibits a fine sensitivity to her subject matter...obvious also when she describes her own beekeeping and years-long experiments with crickets.
She's clever in her choice of subjects. No obscure bugs here! Everyone knows about butterflies, ladybugs, silverfish, dragonflies and the like. These are familiar garden, woods or pond friends (or enemies!--she includes black flies and gypsy moths). These are the little animals we all live with, that we may be curious about, that we've held in our hands and kept in our peanut butter jars. We seldom think about the details of their little bodies or their little lives, but Ms. Hubbell has managed to make them larger than life.
I'd recommend this delightful book to anybody who finds her eye drawn by the flight of a butterfly, or who finds reason to smile over a colorful ladybug.
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