I haven't blogged here for a while as my bug exterminator business has been busy and I have been having to really blast away ant colonies and wasp nests all over the region. From time to time though I have to take out some time away form bug extermination and all things associated with insects and just take out some time to read a book. Yes bug exterminators may be blue collar mopes but the need to learn and study more Entomology. I decided to check out world renown author and professor of zoology Bernd Heinrich and his discussion and written material about the important strategies for insect survival. This is a very important book for bug exterminators to acquire knowledge about how insects survive and how we can learn the insight and internal biological struggles of these pests and what makes the tick tick. First of all about the author Bernd. He is another old man along with middle-aged men who run around and jog with no top on thinking people want to see graying chest hairs. I hate fuckers like this and in my years working on some of the nations college campuses I have noticed a lot of these old dudes jogging topless like they are going to pick up some twenty something co-ed. professor Heinrich needs to keep the jogs to the North wood sand away form the campus of the University of Vermont now far as the book. This book is a very scientific and boring read on the temperature regulations and ingenuity of the worlds insects adapting and controlling their inner thingie. this book is full of shit about the thorax and how bugs play warm up by shivering and basking in the sun. Only a real moth and insect nut would want to read something like this and I had a hard tie reading everything in this book. Bernd is way into insects and the only really cool thing I learned new in this book was more information on a bug I never get many calls to destroy because they nourish and quit literally rob the lives of many other pest insects. I am a big fan of the robber fly and professor Heinrich discusses this robber a bit and how it conserves energy and gains it through basking in the sun and then uses it to suddenly rush another flying insect that gets in on its radar and suddenly makes a happy meal out of the poor unfortunate critter.
The robber fly is the lion of the insect world and will pounce and destroy any other chopper insect in the way and basically the top insect warrior of the biosphere. This is the only bug professor Heinrich needed to write about and keeping it simple instead of all these other strategies of numerous books that unsurprisingly a Dr Heinrich spends many nights staying up at late learning their internal mechanisms.
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