Summer World: A Season of Bounty (Audiobook)

from fyrefly98

Summary: Summer is the season of life, the season of awakening and hatching and growing and reproducing. Every species that experiences summer (and even those tropical and desert species that experience nothing but summer) has evolved a unique way to cope with the challenges of the season, and to...

from zimbawilson

The best thing about Bernd Heinrich is he always teaches me something I didn't know. There is a plethora of fascinating information here about nature in summer. From wood frogs to mud daubers to beatles nothing escapes Heinrich's eye. The only real drawback is his disjointed presentation of infor...

from dissed1

I really enjoyed this book--it's the first nature book I've ever been inspired to read. (It was the author's hand drawn illustrations on the cover that drew me to it.) Each chapter discusses a different aspect of summer--one you probably hadn't thought to notice. From ant wars to the habits of tr...

from zibilee

What is the strange phenomena behind one group of ants kidnapping another? How does the unique tube shaped nest of the mud dauber promote and sustain its survival needs? What are the secret motives behind the wood frog's mating call? How does one species of butterfly not only manage not to get at...

from zibilee

What is the strange phenomena behind one group of ants kidnapping another? How does the unique tube shaped nest of the mud dauber promote and sustain its survival needs? What are the secret motives behind the wood frog's mating call? How does one species of butterfly not only manage not to get at...