{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-insects-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Insects (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Insects is a large-format coffee table book about insects, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. Most show a single insect in its own setting; a few step back to a swarm or a gathering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with beetles: a metallic-green tiger beetle on bare sand, a Hercules beetle with a long black horn on a mossy log in a rainforest and a giraffe weevil with its long black neck raised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen dragonflies: a green and sky-blue emperor dragonfly on a reed above a lily pond, another face to face, all huge blue-green eyes, a scarlet dragonfly with its abdomen pointing straight up, and a golden-ringed dragonfly hanging from a heather stem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen bees, wasps and ants: a honeycomb in the hollow of an old tree, a round nest of wasp paper and leafcutter ants carrying green leaf fragments. Then on the flower: a bumblebee at a pink foxglove, a hummingbird hawk-moth hovering with its long tongue uncoiled and a honeybee on lavender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen moths: a pale green luna moth with long curving tails, a rust-red atlas moth and a yellow comet moth trailing very long tails. Then caterpillars and cocoons: a puss moth caterpillar rearing to show its red-ringed face, white silk cocoons among mulberry leaves and processionary caterpillars travelling nose to tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen mantises and katydids: a white and pale pink orchid mantis with petal-shaped legs and a great green bush-cricket with antennae longer than its body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen masters of disguise: a leaf insect shaped and veined like a leaf, a brown stick insect along its twig and a red underwing showing only the crimson edge of its hindwing. Then fresh water: a diving beetle among pond weed with a silver bubble of air and a mayfly with its clear wings held upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, swarms and gatherings: a glowing cloud of fireflies over a dark meadow, a dark cloud of locusts over a dry plain, red ladybirds packed close on a frosted stem, a tall slab-shaped termite mound and a swarm of honeybees hanging from a branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about insects rather than about the pictures: how much longer a male giraffe weevil's neck can be than a female's, how a firefly makes a cold light that gives off almost no heat, how long the longest stick insects grow, and which insects moult once more after their wings can fly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68148167704880,"sku":"9671456004266","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004266.jpg?v=1792626782","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-insects-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}