What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life

We shriek about them, slap and spray them, and generally think of insects (when we think of them at all) as pests. Yet, if all insects, or even a critical few, were to disappear—if there were none to pollinate plants, serve as food for other animals, dispose of dead organisms, and perform other ecologically essential tasks—virtually all the ecosystems on earth, the webs of life, would unravel. This book, the first to catalogue ecologically important insects by their roles, gives us an enlig...