01809cam a2200265 4500 298873187 TxAuBib 20170713120000.0 090327s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780060742171 0060742178 TxAuBib Heinrich, Bernd. Summer world : a season of bounty / Bernd Heinrich. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, 2009. 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index. Introduction -- Preparing for summer -- Awakening -- Wood frogs -- The early birds -- Bald-faced hornet nests -- Mud daubers and behavior -- The blues -- Artful diners -- Masters of disguise -- Cecropia moths -- Calosamia collapse -- New England longhorns -- Flies -- The hummingbird and the woodpecker -- Deaths and resurrections -- Extreme summer -- Moss, lichens, and tweedlaarkanniedood -- Perpetual summer species -- Ant wars -- Blackbirds -- Silent summer -- Ending summer -- The last peep. Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs, Heinrich never stops observing. --From publisher description. 20170713. Animals Summering. Forest ecology. Ecology New England.