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By May Berenbaum. 350 pp., illustrated. New York, Addison–Wesley, 1994. $25. ISBN 0-201-62499-0.

It is probably great fun to go to lectures by May Berenbaum in her Entomology 105 course, "Insects and People." I expect she presents a great deal of information and covers a wide range of topics on the biology of insects. I expect there are a few good laughs. Berenbaum's book betrays its origin as a set of notes for those lectures, and the transition has not been completely successful.

It is an enormous task. The sheer numbers and extraordinary diversity of insects make it almost impossible to do justice to them in an introduction. There are perhaps a million . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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