Volume 53, Number 5 · March 23, 2006
When a Scorpion Meets a Scorpion
By Tim Flannery
Life in the Undergrowth
by David Attenborough
Princeton University Press,288 pp., $29.95
The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropics
by Piotr Naskrecki
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press,278 pp., $35.00
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier
by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Basic Books, 294 pp., $25.00; $14.95 (paper)
The invention of the microscope revealed wonders to the world, and permitted Jonathan Swift to quip:
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