Super Fly. The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects (ePub)

Mir muh udivitelen i mnogogranen: oni - nezasluzhenno zabytye opyliteli, trudolyubivye ekologi, otvetstvennye za udalenie musora, a takzhe glavnye pomoshchniki kriminalistov. Nesmotrya na to chto u bol'shinstva lyudey nazoylivaya muha vyzyvaet skoree razdrazhenie, v deystvitel'nosti slozhno predstavit' bez nee nashu zhizn'. V etoy knige vydayushchiysya biolog i razrushitel' mifov Dzhonatan Belkomb pokazyvaet otryad dvukrylyh, k kotoromu otnosyatsya muhi, vo vsem ego mnogoobrazii - i dazhe krasote! Avtor ob"yasnyaet, naskol'ko vazhnuyu rol' dvukrylye igrayut v ekosisteme, kak oni dostigli evolyucionnogo uspekha, i daet nam shans zanovo uznat' etih porazitel'nyh nasekomyh - ot drozofily i blizkogo rodstvennika muhi, komara, do menee izvestnoy neftyanoy muhi (edinstvennoe v mire zhivoe sushchestvo, kotoroe razvivaetsya v basseynah s neft'yu!) i shokoladnoy moshki, unikal'noy opylitel'nicy cvetkov kakao. Eta kniga navsegda izmenit vashe otnoshenie k muham i pomozhet vzglyanut' na nih po-novomu.
«V svoey knige ya rassmatrivayu muh kak udivitel'nyh opportunistov, sposobnyh nayti vygodu i obespechit' sebe dostoynuyu zhizn' v samyh neozhidannyh mestah. My poznakomimsya s muhami, kotorye perenosyat bolezni, pitayutsya plot'yu, zanimayutsya lyubov'yu, opylyayut rasteniya, p'yut krov', pererabatyvayut othody, uznaem o muhah-hishchnikah, parazitah i parazitoidah, sel'skohozyaystvennyh vreditelyah, obmanshchikah i kooperatorah. My uznaem ob udivitel'nyh, sovershenno neveroyatnyh, derzkih, chudesnyh i prosto feericheskih sposobah vyzhivaniya muh v mire, kotorym, kak nam kazhetsya, upravlyayut tol'ko lyudi». (Dzhonatan Belkomb)