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Authors: Dave Goulson

A Buzz in the Meadow (32 page)

4. Mating Wheels and Sexual Cannibalism

5. Filthy Flies

6. The Secret Life of the Meadow Brown

7. Paper Wasps and Drifting Bees

8. The Mating Habits of the Death-Watch Beetle

9. The True Bugs

10. Hothouse Flowers

11. Robbing Rattle

12. Smutty Campions

13. The Disappearing Bees

14. The Inbred Isles

15. Easter Island

Acknowledgements

I must thank all of the many people that I have worked with over the last twenty years, particularly my thirty or so PhD students and the countless undergraduate project students who have working in my research group, all of whom have had to put up with my spectacularly disorganised and forgetful supervision. It was an honour to work with you all. My apologies to them and other scientists whose work I mention if there are factual errors or inaccuracies.

Particular thanks are due to my agent, Patrick Walsh of Conville & Walsh, without whom my first book,
A Sting in the Tale
, might well still be nothing more than a file on my laptop, in which case
A Buzz in the Meadow
would surely never have been written. Thanks also to my editor, Dan Franklin, and the wonderful staff at Jonathan Cape and Random House, with whom publishing is a pleasure.

Finally, I must mention Ellen Rotheray and Kirsty Park, the first people I trust to read my manuscripts. Thank you both for your encouragement, and for gently pointing out the worst of my many blunders.

Index

The index that appears in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Adonis blue butterfly

Aesculapian snake

agri-environment schemes

Animalocaris

Anthophora plumipes

Aoki, Shigeyuki

aphid

arachnid

Arctic poppy

axolotl

Banksia

barn owl

bartsia

bat

bat bug

bed bug

bee orchid

beech marten

Berlins, Marcel

Bernwood Forest

Bernwood Meadows

bilberry bumblebee

Birch, Martin

black hairstreak

blackthorn

black-veined white butterfly

Bombus wurflenii

Brakefield Paul

brimstone butterfly

broom

buff-tailed bumblebee

Buglife

bumblebee

Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Burgess Shale

buttercup

butterfly

buzz pollination

campion

campion moth

campion smut

carboniferous period

carrion beetle

Carson, Rachel

Casey, Leanne

centaury

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