A Buzz in the Meadow (33 page)

Chagas' disease

Chapman, Jason

Charente

cheating, in mutualisms

chicken farm

cicada

cinquefoil

clothes moth

clover

cockroach

cocksfoot grass

Colony Collapse Disorder

Colorado beetle

common carder bumblebee

Conway-Morris, Simon

corncrake

Cothill

courtship

cow-wheat

cowslip

coypu

Cresswell, James

cricket

Crithidia bombi

crustacean

cuckoo

cuckoo pint

cuckoo spit

Dactylorhiza majalis

dance fly

Darwin, Charles

Dawkins, Richard

DDT

deadnettle

decomposition

Decourtye, Axel

death-watch beetle

demoiselle damselfly

Diamond, Jared

disease transmission by flies

dolichopodid fly

dormouse

Dowdeswell, Wilfrid Hogarth

Dutch elm disease

dragonfly

Duke of Burgundy fritillary butterfly

earthworm

earwig

Easter Island

ecological genetics

Ehrlich, Anne

Ehrlich, Paul

Épenède

eurypterid

extinction

extinct megafauna

extra-pair copulation

eyebright

Fabre, Jean-Henri

false oat grass

firebug

fire salamander

Fisher, Ronald A.

Floral mimicry

flower, evolution of

Fontaneau, Monsieur

Ford, E. B.

forget-me-not

foxglove

frog

froghopper

Fukatsu, Takema

garden bumblebee

Garibaldi, Lucas

genetic drift

genitalia

geranium

Gilbert, Lawrence

Glanville fritillary butterfly

glow-worm

golden oriole

Gould, Stephen Jay

grasshopper

great green bushcricket

great reed warbler

great tit

great yellow bumblebee

green lizard

green woodpecker

greenfly

hairstreak butterfly

Haldane, J.B.S.

Hallucigenia

Hanski, Ilkka

hare

hawkbit

hedgehog

Heliconius
butterfly

heliotropism

hellebore

Henry, Mickaël

Hererra, Carlos

holly blue butterfly

Homo erectus

Homo floresiensis

Homo neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens

honeybee

honey possum

honeysuckle

hoopoe

hormone, insect

house fly

hoverfly

hummingbird hawkmoth

impacts of man on the environment

imidacloprid

inbreeding

insect evolution

insecticide

Integrated Pest Management

invasive species

Island Biogeography Theory

Kells, Andrea

Kettlewell, Bernard

kissing bug

lacewing

Lack, Andrew

ladybird

lady's bedstraw

landfill site

large tortoiseshell butterfly

leaf-cutter ant

lizard

Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos

MacArthur, Robert

Maniola jurtina

mammoth

mating

meadow brown butterfly

meadow clary

meadow foxtail grass

meadow vetchling

meadowsweet

meddick

melanism (the occurrence of dark forms of a species)

Mendel, Gregor

metamorphosis

Microbotryum violaceum

millipede

mites

mole

Monach Isles

monarch butterfly

Montagu's harrier

Morrison, James

mosquito

moth

Musca domestica

mutualisms

Native American

nectar

nectar robbing

Nieminen, Marko

neonicotinoid

nest usurping in bumblebees

newt

nutrient cycles

O'Connor, Steph

Oncocyclus
iris

Opabinia

orchard

orchid

Owen, Denis

owl butterfly

Oxford

panda

paper wasp

parthenogenesis

peppered moth

Peat, James

pesticide

petals, function of

pheromone

Philodendron

picture-wing fly

pignut

pollen

pollination

pond

pond skater

Poupard, Monsieur

Pozo, Maria

purple emperor butterfly

praying mantis

prickly pear

primrose

Pywell, Richard

Quammen, David

Queen of Spain fritillary butterfly

ragged robin

ragwort

Rafflesia arnoldii

Raine, Nigel

Rayner, Pippa

red-eared terrapin

red-legged partridge

red-shanked carder bee

red-tailed bumblebee

restharrow

Rhinanthus minor

Rolph, Tasha

Rothamsted Experimental Station

Rove beetle

ruderal bumblebee

scarce swallowtail butterfly

scarlet tiger moth

Scilly Isles

scorpion fly

shield bug

short-haired bumblebee

snapdragon

speckled wood butterfly

springtail

stone curlew

sweet vernal grass

shrew

shrill carder bee

Simberloff, Daniel

single large or several small debate

small blue butterfly

soldier aphid

stag beetle

stalk-eyed fly

stonechat

superb fairy wren

swallow

swallowtail butterfly

sunflower

tardigrade

teasel

Tendrich, Steve

thermal rewards

thistle

Thomson, James D.

thyme

ticks

toad

tormentil

trilobite

triploid

tufted vetch

vampire bat

Varroa
mite

vinegaroon

viper's bugloss

vole

Walcott, Charles

wall lizard

Walport, Sir Mark

water bear

water boatman

water scorpion

Watson, Robert

western whip snake

whirligig beetle

white-tailed bumblebee

Whitehorn, Penelope

whitethroat

Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian

wild basil

wild carrot

Wilson, E. O.

wing spots (on butterflies)

wood-ant

woodlouse

wood white butterfly

woody nightshade

Wright, Sewall

Wyatt, Tristram

Xerces Society

yellow rattle

yorkshire fog grass

ALSO BY DAVE GOULSON

A Sting in the Tale

About the Author

D
AVE
G
OULSON
studied biology at Oxford University and is now a professor of biological sciences at the University of Stirling. He founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, whose groundbreaking conservation work earned him the Heritage Lottery Award for Best Environmental Project and “Social Innovator of the Year” from the Biology and Biotechnology Research Council. His previous book,
A Sting in the Tale,
was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

A BUZZ IN THE MEADOW.
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