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Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World

10 best books like Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World (Richard Conniff): Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects, The Axemaker's Gift, For Love of Insects, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife, The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
AuthorDouglas W. Tallamy
ISBN0881928542
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining...
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684836262
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures...
Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects
AuthorScott Richard Shaw
Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth—and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw—millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space—where,...
The Axemaker's Gift
AuthorJames Burke
ISBN0399140883
I really, really wanted to like this one. James Burke has one of the most incredible minds on the planet and I have been meaning to pick up one of his books years, specifically The Axemaker's Gift because the concept intrigued me so much: how has the development of technology effected our development as...
For Love of Insects
AuthorThomas Eisner
ISBN0674011813
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife
AuthorWarner Shedd
ISBN0609807978
Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver carrying a load of mud on its tail, or ducked when a porcupine started throwing its quills? Probably not, says Warner Shedd, debunking these and many more popular myths about our animal friends in Owls Aren't Wise & Bats...
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
AuthorAmir D. Aczel
ISBN0156007533
The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north....
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
AuthorPamela Nagami
ISBN0312318235
STARTLING TRUE CASES OF BITE ATTACKS, RESULTING INFECTIONS, AND ENSUING TREATMENTS---
From ticks, ants, and flying bats to elephant seals, Komodo dragons, rhesus macaques, and deadliest of all, humans.

We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.
The bite attacks that Pamela...
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
AuthorBill Schutt
ISBN0307381129
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using...
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805078916
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist

Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
Life in the Undergrowth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0691127034
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.


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Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
AuthorSue Halpern
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
AuthorMerlin Tuttle
ISBN0544382277
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
AuthorSharman Apt Russell
ISBN0465071600
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
AuthorPeter Laufer
ISBN1599215551
The whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking that the author was looking for a story that wasn't there. He didn't necessarily invent anything to write this book, but I think his own ignorance and his entitled sense of poetic license meshed to create a sense of suspense and danger where it really...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
AuthorDavid W. Wolfe
ISBN0738206792
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world, revealing...
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
AuthorGordon Grice
ISBN0385318901
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning...
The Curious Nature Guide: Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You
AuthorClare Walker Leslie
ISBN1612125093
With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie offers adults of all ages an invitation to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite the sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world, and discover the peace and grounding...
Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea
AuthorRichard Ellis
ISBN0142001562
Life on earth began in the sea, and in this tour de force of natural history, authority on marine biology and illustrator Richard Ellis chronicles more than three billion years of aquatic history. From the first microbes and jawless fishes that evolved into the myriad species we know today-sharks,...
A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes
AuthorM. Lee Goff
ISBN0674007271
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body...
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
AuthorJack Repcheck
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every twenty-four hours. His theory was truly radical:...
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
AuthorPatrick Barkham
ISBN1847081274
A lovely account of the butterfly season in the UK of 2009 which is roughly March to September in which Patrick Barkham searches out the resident species, 59 at the last count. It was thoroughly enjoyable though, as these books always seem to do to me, it made me envious of the freedom to pootle around the...
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