Dave Goulson. Picador, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-04837-0
Goulson, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (U.K.), offers what is ostensibly a survey of the bumblebee, the "most gentle and friendly of insects," but which reads more like a biologist's memoir—a conversational exchange with the reader...
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Dave Goulson. Picador, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-06588-9
In 2003, British biologist Goulson (A Sting in the Tale) bought Chez Nauche, “a derelict farm deep in the heart of rural France,” with the intention of establishing a wildlife sanctuary: “a place where butterflies, dragonflies, voles and newts could
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Dave Goulson. Harper, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-308820-7
Entomologist Goulson (The Garden Jungle) decries “alarming declines” in world insect populations in this perhaps too impassioned treatise. A drastic drop in bug life is catastrophic for biodiversity and “all terrestrial and freshwater food chains,”...
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