Nature underfoot : living with beetles, crabgrass, fruit flies, and other tiny life around us / John Hainze ; illustrated by Angela Mele.
Hainze, John, author.; Mele, Angela, illustrator.
2020
GE42 .H356 2020
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Title Nature underfoot : living with beetles, crabgrass, fruit flies, and other tiny life around us / John Hainze ; illustrated by Angela Mele.
Author Hainze, John, author.
ISBN 9780300242782
9780300252682 (e-book)
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Copyright 2020
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number GE42 .H356 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 179.1
179.1
Summary Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, John Hainze, an entomologist and former pesticide developer, considers the fascinating and bizarre history of how these so-called invasive or unwanted pests and weeds have coevolved with humanity and highlights the benefits of a greater respect and moral consideration toward these organisms. With deep insight into the lives of the underappreciated and often reviled creatures that surround us, Hainze's accessible and engaging natural history draws on ethics, religion, and philosophy as he passionately argues that creepy crawlies and unwanted plants deserve both empathy and accommodation as partners dwelling with us on earth.
Note Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, John Hainze, an entomologist and former pesticide developer, considers the fascinating and bizarre history of how these so-called invasive or unwanted pests and weeds have coevolved with humanity and highlights the benefits of a greater respect and moral consideration toward these organisms. With deep insight into the lives of the underappreciated and often reviled creatures that surround us, Hainze's accessible and engaging natural history draws on ethics, religion, and philosophy as he passionately argues that creepy crawlies and unwanted plants deserve both empathy and accommodation as partners dwelling with us on earth.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
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Introduction
One. Anthropocene Winners
Two. Nature at Work
Three. Inadvertent Domestication: The Pets We Didn't Want
Four. Anthropocene Invasions
Five. The Unlucky: Anthropocene Extinctions
Six. Human Exceptionalism?
Seven. Coexistence
Eight. Valuing Our Anthropocene Partners
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Introduction
Anthropocene winners
Nature at work
Inadvertant domestication : the pets we didn't want
Anthropocene invasions
The unlucky : Anthropocene extinctions
Human exceptionalism?
Coexistence
Valuing our Anthropocene partners.

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