Gadagkar, R (2010) Foreword - A Concise Field Guide to Indian Insects & Arachnids. [Book Chapter]
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Abstract
IT is not hard to catalogue a whole range of reasons why we should be interested in insects and spiders, indeed in all forms of life on this 'Little Known Planet', as Howard Ensign Evans called it in a book by that title. Some entomologists study insects for their agricultural importance, especially for their pollination services. Others study them because of the diseases, such as malaria, that insects spread. Some researchers use insects as model systems to conduct experiments in genetics, physiology and pharmacology experiments which would be difficult to perform on higher animals and perhaps impossible on humans. Others study insects, like ants for instance, to learn from them about efficient division of labour and communication. I, for example, study social wasps to understand how societies biologically remote from ourselves deal with the very same problems of everyday social life.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Publisher: | Simova Education and Research |
| Keywords: | Field guide, Indian insects, Arachnids |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2021 06:07 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2021 06:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68308 |
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