Insect and spider books

Fly

Explore the history of this much-maligned creature and examine its newfound redemption through science.

ISBN: 9781861892942

Author: Steven Connor

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Fly

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This book shows how few creatures are as universally despised as the fly. It tells how flies have been blamed for pestilence and plagues and even excommunicated from the medieval church.

Discover the other side to this persecuted creature. The book tells of its versatile powers of flight and demonstrates how its eyes and wings have provided inspiration for some of today’s most daring technology. It also shows how, and why, the humble fruit fly stands at the centre of revolutionary advances in genetic research.

This absorbing book takes the reader on a journey through myth, literature, poetry, painting, film and biology and is the first book to give these common creatures their due.

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