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(More customer reviews)This book is a field guide to critters, plants, and natural organisms that might be encountered in the average North American house. It is divided into 5 chapters: an indoor natural kingdom (about pets and fleas), an indoor plant kingdom (about houseplants), other kingdoms in the kitchen (about yeasts and molds), household ecology (about insects and rodents), and household natural history (economic botany of a variety of household products, such as cedar chests and pencils). Each chapter contains a selection of 3 or 4-page articles that describe a little of the history of the domestication of the item, its mating habits, and a little of the author's personal experience with the item. Despite the book's subtitle "Observing the world of nature inside your home" and the title of the chapter on household ecology, this isn't an ecology book at all, since it rarely mentions any interactions between organisms. Instead, the focus is on simply enumerating living or once living creatures or plants that may make their homes in people's houses, and describing some details of their life cycles. One of the most useful aspects of the book is the way in which Lawrence delineates the differences between common creatures, such as guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils, or houseflies and cluster flies. The book includes an annotated list of reading suggestions for further research.
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Discover the fascinating world of the plants, animals and microorganisms that share your home. Read this book straight through or use it as a handy reference guide as you make new observations indoors. Thoughtful insights, interesting historical facts and beautiful drawings combine to make A Naturalist Indoors thoroughly enjoyable.
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