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HARPERCOLLINS

Publishing great authors since 1817, HarperCollins is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. With 200 years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children’s books, cookbooks, and mystery, romance, reference, religious, and spiritual books, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year.

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Weavers, The

  • SKU: 9789351772286
  • UPC: 9789351772286
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Did you know...

- Dance flies of the family Empididae have been courting their mates for eons by presenting them with silk-wrapped prey as nuptial gifts.

- There are at least twenty-three different categories of silk, each the result of natural selection and an independent evolutionary pathway.

- Some moth-caterpillars will walk only on a path of silk, leaving human monarchy a tad inferior surely.

- Silk is an excellent material for select surgical procedures.

Since life evolved on this planet, there have been six major extinctions and insects - since their arrival 400 million years ago - have been amongst them! How did they survive when species after species went extinct? In a world that is fast collapsing to global warming and climate change, there is now an increased interest in knowing the secrets of insect survival.





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