Wings: Essays on Invetebrate Conservation, our membership
magazine, is published twice each year. Every issue features spectacular full-color
photography by leading photographers and articles by well-respected scientists
and conservationists, such as E.O. Wilson, Thomas Eisner, May Berenbaum, Robert
Michael Pyle, and Sue Hubbell.
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Contents of the Fall 2006 issue:
Introduction: The World of Crustaceans, by Scott Hoffman Black. Pill bugs, crabs, crayfish, and lobsters are some of our most familiar animals. All are crustaceans, a vast group comprising more than sixty-seven thousand species. Yet despite their diversity and the fact that they inhabit much of our planet, most crustaceans go unnoticed.
Dainties of the First Order, by Susan B. Adams. Whether you know them as crayfish, crawdads, or mudbugs, you may be surprised by the diversity and natural history of these familiar crustaceans.
Critical Krill, by Stephen Nicol. Although krill are vitally important to many ocean animals, including squid, seals, and baleen whales, scientists still have a great deal to learn about them. |
Signaling Safety, by John H. Christy and Patricia R. Y. Backwell. Male fiddler crabs use signals, including hooded structures over their burrows, to guide females to shelter, and in doing so increase their chance of mating.
Hidden Life, by Tim B. Graham. Branchiopods are marine invertebrates that have, over millions of years, evolved to live in desert environments with sporadic moisture.
Roly-Poly Lifestyles, by Marilyn Schotte. Isopods—the lower-profile relatives of crabs, lobsters, shrimp—are the most ubiquitous of crustaceans, inhabiting a wide variety of environments.
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