What Good Are Bugs? by Gilbert Waldbauer, Harvard University Press, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 0674010272 Reviewed by Jonathan Beard
A BUG in your software? Complain. A bug on your arm? Swat it. Entomologist Gilbert Waldbauer from the University of Illinois plans to stop that second reaction: he wants to change readers’ attitudes toward insects. He explains, with hundreds of examples taken from research old and new, the myriad ways in which insects help plants and animals – and that does include people. And, in What Good Are Bugs? Waldbauer’s view of the web of life is usually from the insect level horizontally,…
