The management of insects in recreation and tourism /
"Insects such as cockroaches, mosquitoes and bed-bugs are usually not highly sought amongst travellers or recreationists, yet each year, collectors, butterfly enthusiasts, dragonfly-hunters and apiarists collect, visit, document and raise insects for recreational purposes. Illustrating a range...
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Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Minding insects : scale, value, world / Adam Dodd
- The philosophical and psychological dimensions of insects : tourism, horror and the negative sublime / Jeff Lockwood
- Tiger beetles : lessons in natural history, conservation, and the rise of amateur involvement / David L. Pearson
- A is for agriculture, B is for bee, C is for colony-collapse disorder, P is for pollinator parks : an A to Z overview of what insect conservationists can learn from bees / Edward M. Spevak
- The entomological and recreational aspects of interacting with Lepidoptera / T.R. New
- Dragonflies : their lives, our lives, from ponds to reserves / Michael J. Samways
- Relating to aquatic insects : becoming English fly fishers / Adrian Franklin
- An appreciation for the natural world through collecting, owning, and observing insects / Akito Y. Kawahara and Robert M. Pyle
- Gardening and landscape modification : butterfly gardens / Jaret Daniels
- The role of edible insects in human recreation and tourism / Alan L. Yen, Yupa Hanboonsong and Arnold van Huis
- Butterfly conservatories, butterfly ranches and insectariums : generating income while promoting social and environmental justice / Ko Veltman
- Insect festivals : celebrating and fostering human-insect encounters / Glen T. Hvenegaard [and others]
- Glow-worm tourism in Australia and New Zealand : commodifying and conserving charismatic micro-fauna / C. Michael Hall
- May you live in interesting times : technology and entomology / Forrest L. Mitchell
- Citizen science and insect conservation / Kelsey Johansen and Alaine Auger
- The institutionalization of insect welfare : the cultural aspects of establishing a new organization dedicated to conserving invertebrates / Matt Shardlow
- Insects in education : creating tolerance for some of the world's smallest citizens / Crystal M. Ernst [and others]
- Discovering the microwilderness in parks and protected areas / Jessica J. Rykken and Brian D. Farrell.
