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Authors: Dave Goulson
A Buzz in the Meadow (33 page)
Chagas' disease
Chapman, Jason
Charente
cheating, in mutualisms
chicken farm
cicada
cinquefoil
clothes moth
clover
cockroach
cocksfoot grass
Colony Collapse Disorder
Colorado beetle
common carder bumblebee
Conway-Morris, Simon
corncrake
Cothill
courtship
cow-wheat
cowslip
coypu
Cresswell, James
cricket
Crithidia bombi
crustacean
cuckoo
cuckoo pint
cuckoo spit
Dactylorhiza majalis
dance fly
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
DDT
deadnettle
decomposition
Decourtye, Axel
death-watch beetle
demoiselle damselfly
Diamond, Jared
disease transmission by flies
dolichopodid fly
dormouse
Dowdeswell, Wilfrid Hogarth
Dutch elm disease
dragonfly
Duke of Burgundy fritillary butterfly
earthworm
earwig
Easter Island
ecological genetics
Ehrlich, Anne
Ehrlich, Paul
Ãpenède
eurypterid
extinction
extinct megafauna
extra-pair copulation
eyebright
Fabre, Jean-Henri
false oat grass
firebug
fire salamander
Fisher, Ronald A.
Floral mimicry
flower, evolution of
Fontaneau, Monsieur
Ford, E. B.
forget-me-not
foxglove
frog
froghopper
Fukatsu, Takema
garden bumblebee
Garibaldi, Lucas
genetic drift
genitalia
geranium
Gilbert, Lawrence
Glanville fritillary butterfly
glow-worm
golden oriole
Gould, Stephen Jay
grasshopper
great green bushcricket
great reed warbler
great tit
great yellow bumblebee
green lizard
green woodpecker
greenfly
hairstreak butterfly
Haldane, J.B.S.
Hallucigenia
Hanski, Ilkka
hare
hawkbit
hedgehog
Heliconius
butterfly
heliotropism
hellebore
Henry, Mickaël
Hererra, Carlos
holly blue butterfly
Homo erectus
Homo floresiensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
honeybee
honey possum
honeysuckle
hoopoe
hormone, insect
house fly
hoverfly
hummingbird hawkmoth
impacts of man on the environment
imidacloprid
inbreeding
insect evolution
insecticide
Integrated Pest Management
invasive species
Island Biogeography Theory
Kells, Andrea
Kettlewell, Bernard
kissing bug
lacewing
Lack, Andrew
ladybird
lady's bedstraw
landfill site
large tortoiseshell butterfly
leaf-cutter ant
lizard
Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
MacArthur, Robert
Maniola jurtina
mammoth
mating
meadow brown butterfly
meadow clary
meadow foxtail grass
meadow vetchling
meadowsweet
meddick
melanism (the occurrence of dark forms of a species)
Mendel, Gregor
metamorphosis
Microbotryum violaceum
millipede
mites
mole
Monach Isles
monarch butterfly
Montagu's harrier
Morrison, James
mosquito
moth
Musca domestica
mutualisms
Native American
nectar
nectar robbing
Nieminen, Marko
neonicotinoid
nest usurping in bumblebees
newt
nutrient cycles
O'Connor, Steph
Oncocyclus
iris
Opabinia
orchard
orchid
Owen, Denis
owl butterfly
Oxford
panda
paper wasp
parthenogenesis
peppered moth
Peat, James
pesticide
petals, function of
pheromone
Philodendron
picture-wing fly
pignut
pollen
pollination
pond
pond skater
Poupard, Monsieur
Pozo, Maria
purple emperor butterfly
praying mantis
prickly pear
primrose
Pywell, Richard
Quammen, David
Queen of Spain fritillary butterfly
ragged robin
ragwort
Rafflesia arnoldii
Raine, Nigel
Rayner, Pippa
red-eared terrapin
red-legged partridge
red-shanked carder bee
red-tailed bumblebee
restharrow
Rhinanthus minor
Rolph, Tasha
Rothamsted Experimental Station
Rove beetle
ruderal bumblebee
scarce swallowtail butterfly
scarlet tiger moth
Scilly Isles
scorpion fly
shield bug
short-haired bumblebee
snapdragon
speckled wood butterfly
springtail
stone curlew
sweet vernal grass
shrew
shrill carder bee
Simberloff, Daniel
single large or several small debate
small blue butterfly
soldier aphid
stag beetle
stalk-eyed fly
stonechat
superb fairy wren
swallow
swallowtail butterfly
sunflower
tardigrade
teasel
Tendrich, Steve
thermal rewards
thistle
Thomson, James D.
thyme
ticks
toad
tormentil
trilobite
triploid
tufted vetch
vampire bat
Varroa
mite
vinegaroon
viper's bugloss
vole
Walcott, Charles
wall lizard
Walport, Sir Mark
water bear
water boatman
water scorpion
Watson, Robert
western whip snake
whirligig beetle
white-tailed bumblebee
Whitehorn, Penelope
whitethroat
Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian
wild basil
wild carrot
Wilson, E. O.
wing spots (on butterflies)
wood-ant
woodlouse
wood white butterfly
woody nightshade
Wright, Sewall
Wyatt, Tristram
Xerces Society
yellow rattle
yorkshire fog grass
A Sting in the Tale
D
AVE
G
OULSON
studied biology at Oxford University and is now a professor of biological sciences at the University of Stirling. He founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, whose groundbreaking conservation work earned him the Heritage Lottery Award for Best Environmental Project and “Social Innovator of the Year” from the Biology and Biotechnology Research Council. His previous book,
A Sting in the Tale,
was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
A BUZZ IN THE MEADOW.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, a division of Random House Group Limited
First U.S. Edition: May 2015
eISBN 9781250065896
First eBook edition: March 2015