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Science 13 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5758, p. 178
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121896
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGY:
Bug Sprays or Class (Insecta) Warfare

May Berenbaum

Secret Weapons
Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
by Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, and Melody Siegler
Belknap (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA, 2005. 384 pp. $29.95, £18.95, €27.70. ISBN 0-674-01882-6.
This collection of short essays (accompanied by striking, informative photographs) offers a splendid introduction to the behavioral chemical ecology of insects and other arthropods.
The reviewer is in the Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Goodwin. Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: maybe{at}uiuc.edu

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